What have you seen

If anyone is interested or in the area, there has been a reported sighting of 3 great bustards on the isle of portland in dorset.

BM no feeding stations for raptors around here that I know of.

Love to see a Great Bustard but don't think I'm going to do a 400 mile return journey on the off chance

Some local news about Great Bustards earlier in the year on the BBC.

see here

We have been watching out for Red Kites along the A303 corridor but they haven't spread far out from Hants so far.

If you buy a ticket, I could ask them to hang around a bit.

They must have had a bad cage day on Salisbury Plain. There have been  a number of escapees sighted. The nearest to you was about 6 weeks ago around the midlands area.

A friend of a friend tells me there is a hawk-owl showing in North Yorkshire this weekend. Can't find out where mind, anyone know?

Micky

If you visit the rare bird alert map, it will show you as a red star in Harrogate. Park View is the road shown, fairly near Harrogate station.

Don't subscribe to this but will certainly have a look at it. Often see twitchers at side of roads as I drive past and wonder what they are scoping. This app may answer those questions. Cheers

I don’t either, but use the map page on map rather than satelite as you get a good idea where to look.

There is no requieprement to join just for the map page.

It would now appear that the hawk-owl was an escapee. The 'owner' has been on social media showing concern for the bird if it has failed to successfully hunt in last few hours. Apparently they are flown in the art of falconry or hawking, I'm not sure which form of the sport though.

Can't offer much in the way of hawk owl, will a Widgeon do?  This must be one of the most beautiful water birds......then went to see the seals, pups all over the public walkways.