a nice walk on saturday morning very warm with a nice breeze
a cuckoo sang for ages from daisy bank a lone lost looking lapwing flew south a snipe drummed and and a curlew curlewed which was nice
2 gulls flew east lesser black adult and herring gull 3rd year lots of meadow pipits and skylarks singing then as i reached the head of the woodland a large raptor flew purposley towards the wood a large accipter
overall a bulky solid looking bird and quite a curvy appearance not the small angular look of sparrowhawk, never got much on plumage as i was looking south-south-east into the sun so it was more of a shillouette but as it dropped below the trees the browner upperparts were seen,it just glided into the woods and must have been the same bird i saw last week soaring above the valley
last week it wasnt as straight forward as it gave the usual chameleon views at first it looked like a falcon then a buzzard
a crap description of goshawk
after getting back enjoying the weather a bird was high up heading north grabbed the meopta bins a red kite!!!! it had some lost feathers to the primaries which match a photo on facebook of one seen near hebden bridge a few days earlier
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