A day at TH was hardly filled with promise but the harriers were good value and two calling and displaying Sparrowhawks were presumably looking to nest in the same part of the reserve as usual. Whilst watching the harriers and generally scanning the distant skies for my first hirundine of the year revealed something larger - a White-tailed Eagle, distant but still nice to see. Put out on WhatsApp and, according to subsequent messages, it headed up the river towards the abbey. Meanwhile, back at reception, two more were putting on a great flying display over the harbour before gaining height and drifting east. They drew in two Buzzards from the south which gave the scene some scale before disappearing out of sight. An hour later three were over Blackfield near Calshot - our birds or three others ?? Who knows.
Tha latter two must have been much lower over Brownwich judging by MF's pictures.
The only downside was missing a rapidly inward-bound Osprey just before I arrived.
