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Doesn't look the right habitat for a Marsh Harrier Ken. Legs not powerful enough for an eagle species but pale head and impression suggests otherwise. Must be a buzzard.
 
PYRTLE said:
Doesn't look the right habitat for a Marsh Harrier Ken. Legs not powerful enough for an eagle species but pale head and impression suggests otherwise. Must be a buzzard.
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.....well I was blindfolded ;)

On a more serious note...I thought the shanks too thin and long?

Cheers

Now having taken the blindfold off! Yes it's more likely to be CB.
 
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I'd concurr. Juv Honey for me. But can see where the Marsh feeling came from. Check the neck extension in image 1 for starters. Lots of other pointers too. Like hanging around visibly in trees looking like a pale-headed odd raptor. learning your trade, awkwardly without stealth mode, like a juv HB...
 
I don't see a HB here but a big headed CB, I don't see a tail either, only wingtips, date maybe helpful as yellow billed juvenile HB not expected before end of August
 
Thanks for all the comments. The picture was taken at May, 10th this year in the Kuresoo bog in Sooma National Park.

Johannes
 
Is it possible that pic 1 and 2/3 are not the same bird? I'm getting a distinct Marsh Harrier vibe from pic 3, a distinct Buteo vibe from pic 1, and pic 2 ambiguous (though as only the head position is different between 2 and 3 I assume they must be the same individual...)
 
2 and 3 are certainly the same bird. Number 1 was taken some minutes earlier and you might be right that I am mistaken and it is a different bird.
 
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