h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I haven't been birdwatching in Wirral, but I've seen marsh harriers at Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey. I've seen hen harriers in France, but you'd be very lucky to see them in the UK, as they're almost extinct.

Sasha! Another Wonder of the Wirral...

Thanks both!

Yes, that is a shame about the hen harriers that they were persecuted to near extinction... Conservation work is hopefully helping, though Raptors are fascinating birds...

Very well done excellent photographs in tough conditions.
Thanks for shareing the results in an interesting article

Twenty years ago I visited a friend in Rochester, New York. She took me to a canyon where falcons and hawks and eagles regularly set forth to catch their prey. It was exciting -- and maybe a little scary -- to see big eagles come down in your direction, only to veer off in search of smaller prey.

When the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1maTeOxPZpU

Thanks bob

Thanks paulh - great view of the turkey vulture buzzard in that video and I learned that we have an Entry about it A2430244

The shape of the wings is definitely distinctive - not like my buzzard A87902571

Thank you for posting the photographs

I don't mind the turkey part, but the buzzard part is kind of offputting.