20250909 E Honey Buzzard, Waxham

 

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Low over the Dunes.
Intermediate - Dark morph juvenile.
Note barring in the axillaries, paler undertail coverts and greater underwing coverts.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Sea Palling beyond.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard

20250909 Med Gull
40 loafing on sea off Waxham. 
60+ on stubble fields early morn. The Commonest gull in the area...

20250909 Waxham, The Great Barn, Hall & Church
A mysterious place...

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Returned to bramble patch and appeared to be sunning... 
Wings slightly open.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Taken from Waxham Rd at 2400mm through midday heat haze and 200m away.
Note dark long tail with white tip.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
A large dark eye in an open face, without the eye-brow of Common Buzzard.

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Upperparts shot. Tail coverts patch Off white but noticeable at range. 

20250909 E Honey Buzzard
Glided around Dunes with deep elastic wingbeats.
Ticker's tweet of the day: 'we have looked up the E and its does stand for European,
the official name this week'...