17.11: 13.30 - 15.15, cold and windy.
Decided to check out the RLB which I was
99% sure I'd seen last week [ Wednesday 10th ] but refrained from telling anyone online etc. Anyway I parked in the same lay-by as last week and scanned towards the works but saw nothing. Thirty minutes later I spotted it perched on a post behind the farm and I tried digiscoping it but it flew off across the fields. We watched it for a good twenty minutes as it made it's way to the compound at the rear of the works. As it prepared to land on a post [ I was watching it with the scope] I noticed another Buzzard already on it, this was light in colour on it's top side, it crossed my mind as to if it could be another RLB or a juvenile Common Buzzard or the pale morph that is often seen at Worlaby. Anyway the RLB attempted to land and the other one put up a fight to stop it but lost, I then took a record digiscope shot but it was poor but considering the distance not surprising. We watched the bird for just over an hour. It mostly kept to it's favoured side but once went over to the Island side. It was twice mobbed, once by a Kestrel and then a Marsh Harrier. We noticed other people parked in the other lay-bys taking photos of the RLB. Although it was a very cold and draughty day it was a most enjoyable one now that I was
100% certain of my sighting last week
It's rare that I find anything of note
Reed's Island: Golden Plover - 400+
Lapwing - 90
Kestrel - 1
High in the western sky going northwards as we were about to leave for Barton were five large flocks of birds, much too far for us to ID.
Far Ings: 15.40
Smew - 1m on Hotel Pit.
This was the pick-me up I needed...
Kind regards
John
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