Hi, not been on here in quite a while but we just had our neighbour over, she brought some veg for us, lovely!
We got talking about animal, as ya do haha and it turns out her teenage soon loves birds of prey, as do I, so we had a nice talk and she says this area is full of buzzards, sparrowhawks, tawny owls and a pair/family of barn owls [depending on the time of year haha]
Then she told me about a time, 2 years ago [Nov 2010] that her and her son were walking down by the Yealmpton Estuary and were used to all kinds of birds when they'd stopped to turn round, it was november time and it was getting chilly, they were by a fishermans boat when they spotted a bird coming towards them and her son had said that it didnt look like something they were used to seeing, but she said no, it'll just be a buzzard. But as it came close and went over them they realised it was not a buzzard and was much much bigger, it flew pretty low too, they couldnt make out markings that well just its sheer size.
It flew over them and then slowly turned and headed towards noss mayo way.
On speaking to the RSPB they could only come up with two options....Osprey or Sea Eagle, but neither should of been in devon at that time of year!
So my question is, to anybody in devon if they know of around the yealmpton/noss mayo area ish of a large bird of prey? I'm sure if there was one then someone here must of seen it, if not it'll have to be one of those that got away!
We got talking about animal, as ya do haha and it turns out her teenage soon loves birds of prey, as do I, so we had a nice talk and she says this area is full of buzzards, sparrowhawks, tawny owls and a pair/family of barn owls [depending on the time of year haha]
Then she told me about a time, 2 years ago [Nov 2010] that her and her son were walking down by the Yealmpton Estuary and were used to all kinds of birds when they'd stopped to turn round, it was november time and it was getting chilly, they were by a fishermans boat when they spotted a bird coming towards them and her son had said that it didnt look like something they were used to seeing, but she said no, it'll just be a buzzard. But as it came close and went over them they realised it was not a buzzard and was much much bigger, it flew pretty low too, they couldnt make out markings that well just its sheer size.
It flew over them and then slowly turned and headed towards noss mayo way.
On speaking to the RSPB they could only come up with two options....Osprey or Sea Eagle, but neither should of been in devon at that time of year!
So my question is, to anybody in devon if they know of around the yealmpton/noss mayo area ish of a large bird of prey? I'm sure if there was one then someone here must of seen it, if not it'll have to be one of those that got away!