Showing posts with label buzzard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buzzard. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Buzzard over Driffield

You are going to have to take my word for this as I was unable to get any photographic evidence.
It's a bright, sunny morning and I have just been hanging my washing out, as I gazed up at the birds I saw in the distance soaring very high a familiar outline. I thought, that looks like a buzzard but it can't be and then I remembered that I have seen buzzards before in East Yorkshire near Goodmanham & South Dalton around the Dalton estate.


So I carried on watching it, I daren't rush in to get my binoculars incase it had gone when I returned, to confirm what I thought and yes it came a little nearer over the farm land and circled and I saw the tail shape, the brown and light markings under the wings and then it gradually flew higher and further away towards Driffield. 
Definitely a buzzard, I've seen plenty in Scotland & Wales to confirm we have a buzzard in the area. There's plenty for them to eat here although the downside are the farmers and gamekeepers around here who I know would shoot it at first glance.


What an exciting start to the morning.