Raptor migration at close hand.
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| Honey Buzzard (Aberjero Europeo / Pernis apivorus). |
I dropped the car off down in Huétor at the garage and walked back to the house across the fields but I did not see very much but just as I approched the house I saw a very nice Honey Buzzard (Aberjero Europeo / Pernis apivorus) sat on a wire on the opposite side of the road which I got a couple of shots of before he lifted off and started to search for a thermal.
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| Honey Buzzard (Aberjero Europeo / Pernis apivorus). |
With in a couple of minutes several more birds started to lift so I rushed through the house and out on to the terrace where I had a couple of birds come in quite close giving nice views. In all around 50 birds had come up out of the olives and then drifted off South West towards Loja.
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| Honey Buzzard (Aberjero Europeo / Pernis apivorus). |
Later in the day Jayne and I went up to see our friends Lesley and Allan who were over from the UK and whilst we were chatting and having a drink or three 8 or 9 Black Kites (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans) were ending their days flying and dropped down in to the Olives a couple of hundred meters away.
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| Honey Buzzard (Aberjero Europeo / Pernis apivorus). |
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