Finally caught that elusive bird!

For months, now, we've had a beautiful pale morph buzzard lurking on the reserve.  I usually either hear it's been floating around at the Island Mere Hide or I see it in the distance from the North Wall, a pale blur in the trees.  This all changed on Wednesday as, unbelievably, it circled in the air directly over Island Mere while I was there to see it!  You can imagine the camera went into machine-gun mode:

You can imagine I came away very happy!

Enjoy, because I know I did.

Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.