I have been visited by this bird in my garden at Gibbons Bank over the
last 2 days- it sits very still for a long time. Can anyone identify it?Martin C
Bird ID Please
Monday April 20, 2020 by Fiona H
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Looks like a female sparrowhawk – possibly a juvenile.
Anthony C
Female Hen Harrier, possibly?
Do you have a rough idea of the size?
Is this a merlin? I’ve seen a merlin in my garden on a couple of occasions.
Martin, in case you don’t follow Facebook, there is discussion following this post there that this might be a juvenile buzzard.
Yes Peter, I think that FB ID is exactly right – a juvenile buzzard indeed. I take back the sparrowhawk!
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These photos are of (what I ID’d as) a young buzzard that spent a few weeks earlier this year, after storms Ciara and Dennis, in the trees and fields behind me just below Kiln Lane. It’s a BIG bird. I guess that the size of the bird in Martin’s pictures would indeed help to ID it. I guess that its plumage could have changed a little as it matures?
Common buzzard