Raptor, North Yorkshire? (1 Viewer)

[Barred Wobbler]

I was sitting in a moorland field yesterday when a distant speck caught my eye - twice. What looked like a largish raptor flew up near a copse of trees, giving short views of what looked like a glimpse of white rump before the bird vanished against the background. Unfortunately my binoculars and big lens were both back in the car a quarter of a mile away, so the second time it appeared all I could do was to pull the lens I had with me out to its full zoom of 200mm and hope for something that would give me either an underside or an upperside to help identify it as what I suspected might be a ringtail hen harrier.

I got neither, just a tail-end shot as the bird turned and vanished again.

 

[lou salomon]

looks like an escaped harris's hawk.

 

[Barred Wobbler]

looks like an escapes harris hawk.

That also entered into my thinking Lou.

 

[aeshna5]

I doubt it will last long there- likely to get blasted from the sky!!

 

[Barred Wobbler]

I doubt it will last long there- likely to get blasted from the sky!!

There were two buzzards displaying overhead at the same time.