What's Buzzing or Flying near you today.... 2014

I put it on the Honey Bee Thread, Spruce, is that the right thread???

 

I saw a bird yesterday and was wondering what it was. It didn't fly directly overhead so I couldn't see it properly and was about 100ft up.

It appeared to be about the size of a buzzard and glided along with wings fully outstretched. Although I wasn't sure, it appeared as if the wing tips folded upwards.

What made me notice it was the sound it was making. It made a call approx. every five seconds and it was a single, drawn out, sound that lasted about two seconds. Not the sharp type of sound a seagull makes that stops abruptly. It was loud and almost a plaintive sort of sound.

 

Shiney that might have been me I was trying to attract your attention

 

No, I would have recognised your voice. You'd have said 'you twit it's woo'!

 

Shiney

 

@Sheal
Thanks, but it wasn't a Peregrine. I've just listened to its call and it's not at all similar. Although its call is stretched out it is quite strident and sharp, and repeated fairly quickly. Whereas, the bird I saw had a loud but quite gentle sound and repeated about every five seconds.

The Peregrine's wings are a lot more pointed than the bird I saw, whose wings were thicker at the end. Very much like a buzzard, but I wasn't able to tell whether the wing tips were splayed out.

Of course, it could have been a buzzard but I've never seen any in this area.

 

Peacock Butterfly

 

Good evening Spruce and thank you my friend,just testing the 70 x 300 lens out this was taken at about 10 feet away,its the first one I seen here this year