The flow of Buzzards I saw was likely to be the same you had Roger. In recent years it seems to me that Buzzards really seem to have increased as a migrant, presumably as their numbers have grown more have to leave southwards for the winter.
Did any body else see about 14 raptors today circling over civic centre, I live about 5 minutes away and at about 12:30 saw what I thought was 3 buzzards and a sparrowhawk fly over my house, circling and moving towards civic, I thought then thay they might not be buzzards as the call the were making were the usual Buzzard sound. Then about 45 minutes later I was walking to ASDA with my sister telling her about what I saw and I kept checking the sky hoping to see more and to my delight over ASDA was 6 Buzzard size birds and then8 if not more smaller falcon type birds. All I can think is that these were passing during migrating.
I hope somebody else saw this and can tell me what they were, if only I had my camera and zoom lens which Ive left at a friends house I would have got some shots as the sky was so clear to.
Let me know if you saw this.
Thanks Roger
I think Henry Cook had around 12 Buzzards today over Davenport Green so possibly the same birds?
Did any body else see about 14 raptors today circling over civic centre, I live about 5 minutes away and at about 12:30 saw what I thought was 3 buzzards and a sparrowhawk fly over my house, circling and moving towards civic, I thought then thay they might not be buzzards as the call the were making were the usual Buzzard sound. Then about 45 minutes later I was walking to ASDA with my sister telling her about what I saw and I kept checking the sky hoping to see more and to my delight over ASDA was 6 Buzzard size birds and then8 if not more smaller falcon type birds. All I can think is that these were passing during migrating.
I hope somebody else saw this and can tell me what they were, if only I had my camera and zoom lens which Ive left at a friends house I would have got some shots as the sky was so clear to.
Hi Roger, We didn't see your birds but there has been a large number of raptors reported from many sites today, we had minimum if 19 Buzzards over Winter Hill along with up to 12 Sparrowhawks so likely yours were a mixture of these two species. A Goshawk was seen at Woolston, Hen Harrier also Winter Hill and a Red Kite in Bury so an excellent raptor day, but not surprising given the time of year and todays weather
-- Edited by Simon Warford on Saturday 22nd of September 2012 09:55:39 PM
