Light NW winds switching to the S and SSW from 10am. I decided to stare out to sea from the Langdon end of the patch today. Mostly bright skies over the Channel with cloud hugging the coast, which helped with heat haze.
In place above the Eastern docks by 11am. The first Marsh Harrier of the day arrived high at 11.30. The next raptor was, an ever hoped for Honey Buzzard, picked up directly south powering in just above the horizon at 12.10.
A dark, barred female – It circled over the Eastern docks gaining height and drifted West of my position, eventually continuing NW towards the castle.
Another Marsh Harrier (my first male of the year) came in high just after but at 12.40 I picked up a distant Honey Buzzard circling over the Southern mouth of the Harbour. Sadly it made landfall over the Western docks, coming in infront of Shakespeare cliff (below).
2 similarly sized but unidentified Raptors followed a similar line to this but arrived even further West over the next 20 minutes, by which time the heat haze had become an issue and I just couldnt be 100% sure what they were.
3 More Marsh Harriers (below) came in off before I left at 3pm bringing their total to 5 for the day.
I do love seeing Birds of prey arrive like this.
PERDIX BIRDER 
Well Done !
Thank you Jamie.
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