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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Craig H" data-source="post: 3201438" data-attributes="member: 30046">Ive watched this tread for a while with interest now. I wasn't going to comment as I hate nothing more than being told what I saw, and I do not wish to tell someone else what they saw. So please consider these suggestions as possible alternatives only. As someone who visits the area regularly I would like nothing more than to see a pair of these birds re-established. So:1. From my knowledge of the area, the skyline in photo 1 and the description in the posts it sounds like the bird was flying over the head of Riggindale valley, probably over the High Street ridge possibly as far over as Mardale Ill Bell. Not out of territory for the male bird, so photo 1 could well be (almost certainly?) the resident male bird.2. Photo 2 show A.N Other Raptor as far as I'm concerned. I really dont see how anyone could ascribe a species to it.3. Photo 3 is, in  my opinion a Buzzard for all the reasons previously shared.4. is it possible that the 'Juvenile' which sounds like it might have been smaller (given the questions about size) could actually have been a buzzard mobbing the resident male? Plumage description sounds right. If a pair of Bazzards have set up territory here (as mentioned by someone else) I guess they would try to mob the eagle if he strayed. I am also not familiar with Golden Eagles regularly participating in talon locking as part of their display. Would be interested to hear of anything that describes this.</blockquote>

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