| Re: please help identify bird of prey
Rough-legged Buzzards also do a genuine hover (i.e. continuous wingbeat), but your bird was probably a Common Buzzard sitting on the wind with a few stabilisation flaps as described by caernerch above. RLBs are a northern breeders which winter in small numbers in Britain (and no doubt Belgium). This has been quite a good winter for RLB in Britain. |