While being in the bird hide at St. Ouen’s Pond a fellow bird watcher showed me a photo he had taken the day before. He said “I just could not believe my eyes for the size of this bird as it shot by the hide. I know it was a bird of prey but not the Marsh Harrier”.

After studying the photo along with another person we all went home. I looked up the bird in my books and came to the opinion that it was a “Rough-Legged Buzzard”.

Went to the hide today and the other person was there waiting to see if he could see this mystery bird and i mentioned that i thought it was this Buzzard and he said, “I came to that conclusion too”.

 So we are waiting to see if Mike  Stentiford will mention it in his blog in the Jersey Evening Post this weekend or next. In the mean time i shall be going to see if i can get a photo of this Buzzard or better yet a video.

Well the waiting is over and it was a “Hen Harrier” the photo looked like the bird was bigger but funny enough the Hen Harrier is smaller than the Marsh Harrier so mystery over.

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