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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 3199824" data-attributes="member: 36432">Actually if you read the post I responded to you will see it was not the one about the perched bird. That is because I considered it and decided that a flash of white from feather bases due to a full crop was not out of the question. In addition, as you say, a perched scope sighting from the intake wall supported by the warden is 100%.The sighting I questioned was the one about two new immature birds setting up shop near enough to our old friend to annoy him.There is a great difference in likelihood between a wandering White-tailed Eagle - a species which not only travels from the Continent to winter in Britain, but is also the subject of ongoing reintroduction projects to both Eastern Scotland and Ireland both of which have provably resulted in wandering immatures all over the British Isles - and Golden Eagle, for which immigration from Scotland to Northern England ended with the annihilation of the South-west Scotland population by the scum of grouse shooters.I have met more than sufficient birders who claim to see Buzzards every day, but still claim Golden Eagles where they feel they ought to see Golden Eagles on clearly contradictory characters.Accordingly I sift and consider not only all directly reported evidence but also my knowledge of wider influences and human nature (including my own fallibility in the field.) And the claimed sighting of two Golden Eagles together I do not accept: it fails every sensible test.John</blockquote>

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