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Old 22-07-2008, 04:07 PM
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Buzzard like flight pattern. What bird?

On arrival at work this morning, near centre of Sheffield, looked up to see a large bird flying very high, way above the swifts. Its flight pattern was just like a buzzard, with slow lazy circles and eventually gliding away to a new position.

To compare this bird with a buzzards, if a buzzards wing length was 3 times the width of the wing, then this birds wings were 5 or 6 times the width of its wing. That is, its wings were long and slim. It was too high for anything other than an outline.

Any suggestions as to its ID

Les
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