White-tailed Eagle footage

[Wild-Woman]

If you pop across to the Sussex Ornithological Society's website there's a short video of this superb predator being mobbed by crows. What a sight that must have been. What a huge bird.

[thebeard]

wow thats a lot of crows, poor bird. would be incredible if one of these popped up at one of my patches!!!

[rogpow]

Thanks for the link. Magnificent bird.
I always find it hard to get to grips with the sheer size of them. It looks like a buzzard being mobbed by starlings.
There's been a couple of sightings of a juvenile White-tailed eagle in Hampshire today - Hayling Island and Titchfield Haven - heading west. Presumably the same bird?

[Wild-Woman]

Originally Posted by rogpow

Thanks for the link. Magnificent bird.
I always find it hard to get to grips with the sheer size of them. It looks like a buzzard being mobbed by starlings.
There's been a couple of sightings of a juvenile White-tailed eagle in Hampshire today - Hayling Island and Titchfield Haven - heading west. Presumably the same bird?

I should imagine it's the same bird. Wings that size should enable it to soar and fly for miles.

[Susie]

It was the same bird. It took off at lunchtime and came back via Arundle before settling back at the wild brooks to roost.

I saw it flying, mobbed by crows and flanked by a pair of buzzards which seemed small in comparison.

[Wild-Woman]

Originally Posted by Susie

It was the same bird. It took off at lunchtime and came back via Arundle before settling back at the wild brooks to roost.

I saw it flying, mobbed by crows and flanked by a pair of buzzards which seemed small in comparison.

Ok. That's me jealous! Did you stand there with mouth gaping? I would have done!

[Susie]

Apparently it hasn't come back to the wildbrooks after all and the message saying it did has been removed.

And yes, I was chuffed to bits to see it. When I got there this morning I knew I had found the right spot when I saw a group gathered looking over the wildbrooks and I asked out of the car window if they had seen anything only to be told that they hadn't. I then parked next to them, got out of the car, and there is was flying! If I had driven up to the next viewing area I would have missed it. How lucky am I. And I nearly didn't go today because I had to go out to a family lunch but figured I could just squeeze it in this morning.