Calling this has been troubling me for the last 24 hours. We had a misty cloudy start to Sunday morning at Torrisholme Cricket Club. I was in the middle of the field about 9.30am working when a buzzard flew over on a clean straight flight plan directly North and parallel to the railway but over us some 500 yards West of the line. It was obviously a buzzard and had very broad wings and flapped continuously, slowly, for perhaps 200 yards, glided for 50 with horizontal wings, then flapped again repeating this pattern until out of sight. Very much the flight pattern of a sparrowhawk but in slow motion. It was almost completely pale or white underneath and dark brown above. The whole observation was maybe just 20 seconds or less. The head was prominant and the tail furled not fan shaped and quite long. There was something unlike a common buzzard about it. Rough legged buzzards have depressed wings when gliding like a cuckoo, this didn’t. Possibly a honey buzzard for Scotland or Scandanavia or too late?? Anyone else seen anything like this.
