very white Common buzzard? (1 Viewer)

[tjbirdofprey]

Whats everyones thoughts on this here Raptor, looks very white in first pic but im 99 percent sure its a Common Buzzard. Just checkingo
( sorry bout quality, need a better lense )

Edit: forget to say photos were taken in the UK at Lodmoor in Dorset...

 

[Bananafishbones]

Looks like Common Buzzard, as daft as it seems the poorest picture (2nd pic) shows off the white neck / high chest band that is usualy distinctive and fairly common in Buzzards ID

Wouldnt risk my house ID ing on such poor pics though

 

[tjbirdofprey]

Looks like Common Buzzard, as daft as it seems the poorest picture (2nd pic) shows off the white neck / high chest band that is usualy distinctive and fairly common in Buzzards ID

Wouldnt risk my house ID ing on such poor pics though

yea thats what thought about the band against the chest. Weird color in first pic isnt it, wonder why it looks so white.....o

 

[Bananafishbones]

They vary hugely in colour and you can find a very white phase bird now and again but also maybe the quality of the pic just giving that impression.

Looking at the pics again, the 2nd pics shows a good Buzzard posture :t:

 

[Sy V]

Isn't there a famously white Buzzard in the SW that keeps cropping up every now and then?

 

[tjbirdofprey]

cheers for the replyso

 

[tophillbirder]

One at Tophill Low NR,E.Yorks first seen last October and still present which was originally miss-id'ed as Osprey and Rough-legged Buzzard. Remember one near Lands End in the 90's that was initially reported as rough-legged.