help required on hawk i.d. please (1 Viewer)

[andygolfer]

Steve (Bitter Bugger) and I were out this evening and saw this at Little Leighs, it was some way off in the distance and at the time we thought it wa sprobably a kestrel but as always I took a pic best I could for i.d. (the pics were taken with a 400mm lens and it was little more than a speck in the middle which shows how far off it was!).

Looking at it on my computer it isnt a kestrel but has quite vivid white cheeks - can anybody put my out of my ignorant misery please and tell me what it is, best we could tell it was kestrel sized hence our original thoughts.sorry about the quality but that's the best I could manage

MTIA
andy

 

[Phil Andrews]

Steve (Bitter Bugger) and I were out this evening and saw this at Little Leighs, it was some way off in the disctance and at the time we thought it wa sprobably a kestrel but as always I took a pic best I could for i.d. (the pics were taken with a 400mm lens and it was little more than a speck in the middle which shows how far off it was!).

Looking at it on my computer it isnt a kestrel but has quite vivid white cheeks - can anybody put my out of my ignorant misery please and tell me what it is, best we could tell it was kestrel sized hence our original tohughts.

MTIA
andy

Hobby :t:

 

[andygolfer]

thanks Phil , I wondered about that because of the white cheeks but thought the underside was too rich a brown but will bow to your expertise, many thanks again

andy

 

[Steve_Halstead]

This is all I got of the "Kestrel," you so quickly snubbed in your insatiable search for more Kingfishers



Cheers for the ID

 

[andygolfer]

This is all I got of the "Kestrel," you so quickly snubbed in your insatiable search for more Kingfishers



Cheers for the ID

well it didnt take long to find one when we moved on did it! - I spent an hour or so at H/E on Thursday and saw it (the kingfisher) again but only once.