Lesser spotted or Golden Eagle, South East Poland (1 Viewer)

sthwild · Sep 9, 2020

Didn't expect to see these. Been swimming in a river with kids when I heard a call above. Not sure which one it is exactly. Was joined by what I believe was Kestrel and based on Kestrel's size, I would say Lesser Spotted Eagle but might be wrong.

Richard Prior · Sep 9, 2020

Looks about right for Lesser Spotted to me .

tconzemi · Sep 9, 2020

Spotted for sure, no barring visible but genral darkness, very short outer crescent and square hand nake me think GSE

Andy Adcock · Sep 9, 2020

tconzemi said:
Spotted for sure, no barring visible but genral darkness, very short outer crescent and square hand nake me think GSE

I was going to suggest the same based on the 'double comma' and shape.

smiths · Sep 9, 2020

Tom, a lot of barring is visible on the inner primaries actually.

lou salomon · Sep 9, 2020

...which goes down to the edge of the feathers and is bolder than in GSE. overall impression is LSE and i wonder if the apparent longer 7th finger isn't just due to still growing p3?

tconzemi · Sep 9, 2020

smiths said:
Tom, a lot of barring is visible on the inner primaries actually.

well, have a look at the secondaries, the visible barring in inner primaries looks exactly the same size as the jpeg artefacts in the dark parts, wouldn’t trust them, crescent still better for GSE, hybrids all over the place anyway
Happy with LSE if you and Lou say

sthwild · Sep 9, 2020

Thanks guys. I can always count on you.
P.S.
It’s a heavy crop hence lack of details.

Lesser spotted or Golden Eagle, South East Poland (1 Viewer)

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