A bird of prey in the tower hide at Attenborough. (1 Viewer)

[She’ll not av feathers on]

Ok whilst attempting to spot the short eared owl I think I saw yesterday, this appeared in the skies above me. I’ve managed to get a video. Hope someone can help me with a definite ID this time😅

Oh. Too large to be uploaded. God damn. Let me see if I can crop it!

Ok I’ve taken a screen shot from the video. Does this help?

 

[Butty]

Might be a harrier. Would (far) rather see the video.

 

[She’ll not av feathers on]

If you can tell me how to upload it mate I’ll do it.

 

[THE_FERN]

Ok whilst attempting to spot the short eared owl I think I saw yesterday, this appeared in the skies above me. I’ve managed to get a video. Hope someone can help me with a definite ID this time😅

Oh. Too large to be uploaded. God damn. Let me see if I can crop it!

Ok I’ve taken a screen shot from the video. Does this help?

Looks like female sparrowhawk

 

[tconzemi]

Or a Goshawk, or Peregrine?

 

[Stephen Dunstan]

Or a Goshawk, or Peregrine?

Well quite. It might well be a female Sparrowhawk, but personally I wouldn't be putting a species name to it.

 

[She’ll not av feathers on]

Ok I’ve cropped it to the last 8 seconds Hopefully this is more helpful.

I did have my binos on it at points before this video and can say that it had a distinctive reddish undertail.

Edit: I thought it was a marsh harrier but stand corrected and will learn to keep my mouth shut so as not to make a fool of myself so quickly in future😁

 

[Butty]

Flicky wings. Probably sparowhawk. Harriers don't fly like this at all.

 

[She’ll not av feathers on]

Looks like female sparrowhawk

This is insane knowledge! I doff my cap to you sir! How you can tell that from such a distant view amazes me! 😎

 

[Richard Dale]

It's a falcon, almost certainly a hobby. Wing beats are brief and very shallow, quite unlike sparrowhawk. Wings long and pointed - clearly a falcon rather than a hawk - slow the video down and look again.

 

[She’ll not av feathers on]

If someone wants me to email them the whole video I’m happy to do so.

I’m always going to be indebted to anyone who offers possible identification to me. And even conflicting opinions are valuable to me.

I will say though that a hobby would definitely match what I saw through the binoculars! There was a definite red hue to the underside between chest and tail.

 

[Jos Stratford]

It's a falcon, almost certainly a hobby. Wing beats are brief and very shallow, quite unlike sparrowhawk. Wings long and pointed - clearly a falcon rather than a hawk - slow the video down and look again.

Agreed, Hobby. Clearest when it dives to the right.

 

[Stephen Dunstan]

I’m always going to be indebted to anyone who offers possible identification to me. And even conflicting opinions are valuable to me.

I will say though that a hobby would definitely match what I saw through the binoculars! There was a definite red hue to the underside between chest and tail.

It always helps to mention at the outset distinctive features you saw in the field, in this case that information and the video point to Hobby.

 

[She’ll not av feathers on]

It always helps to mention at the outset distinctive features you saw in the field, in this case that information and the video point to Hobby.

I did say in the post where I’ve added the cropped video there was a distinctive reddish undertail. I should have specified that in my opening comment! Thanks for yours and everyone else’s help!

 

[Southern Viking]

Agreed, Hobby. Clearest when it dives to the right.

Dives to the left technically , unless you mean its right. I agree it's a Hobby

 

[Jos Stratford]

Dives to the left technically , unless you mean its right. I agree it's a Hobby

Oops 🙂

 

[Andy Adcock]

If you can tell me how to upload it mate I’ll do it.

For the future, put it in Youtube and post the link here.

 

[tconzemi]

It's an interesting thread to show how deceptive a single, low quality shot can be. It does not look Hobby at all in the still pic, and still...