rarest bird - WINGED BIRD I.E. - seen whilst biking??

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I don't know much about our fevvered frenz but I was out on a long, desolate drone in the East Riding when I saw one of these (for the first time, yo innit):

https://www.robertcanis.com/wpblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/marsh-harrier-8_robert-canis.jpg

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It's a marsh harrier - roughly as a big as a buzzard, but with a slightly more red kite-like silhouette and flight. What's more I got pretty close - about 30-50 yards away! And was just stopped at the side of the lane watching the bugger going about its raptor business. Didn't give a fuck about me and just glanced at me every now and again with a "yeah - what of it??" gleam in its super-telescopic-read-news-print-at-a-hundred-feet eye.

Bikers - enjoying the countryside when and wherever they can. Or trying to "preserve nature" as it says on my bike's tank sticker. Yeah nice one Soichiro, nudge nudge wink wink.
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[bren_9311]

Great Bike Chat

But there very col pictures
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[Fisty]

Probably the barn owl I hit and killed. It hit my knees at about 60mph then turned inside out down the side of my bike.
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[Ste]

Spanish wildlife.

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[Ariel Badger]

Red Kite in the Elan Valley, first one I say caused me to put the bike in a ditch.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Haha really?? I remember when they were pretty rare back in the early '90s after attempts to reintroduce them. Saw one in Wales nr. Rhayader - and was surprised by how big the bugger was. Now where I live - outside York - they're almost bloody garden birds. So I see them when riding my motorbike, roger, all the time.
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[andyscooter]

an ostritch

it was running down the road after escaping from a farm
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Not exactly rare, but see shit loads of Kestrels near me.
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[c_dug]

Not on the bike but a few years back up in the pyrenees on the border in the car with my dad an sister we saw a group of huge (golden?) eagles. They were absolutely massive, so impressive.
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[Islander]

I see all sorts of birds every day on my way into work. I've had short eared owls fly alongside on a couple of occasions, regularly see merlins, hen harriers, peregrine falcons and kestrels as well as curlews, lapwings, bonxies (arctic skuas) and many others.

[Conon]

There's a white tailed sea eagle that frequents the farm where I live. Came out the cottage early one morning, and it took off from my roof, swooped over my bike and completely dwarfed it. Never a camera handy when you need one.

[Frost]

Seen plenty of red kites in Whales

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[stonesie]

Probably not that rare but quite hard to spot, Skylark's.


Other than that, ostrich, there's 3 of them kept in a field in Stainforth

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[cimbian]

Goshawk when riding across Salisbury Plain.
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[Shinigami]

this green turd

https://grimsbywoods.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/orville2.jpg

Ran straight over his face
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[i.p.phrealy]

I work by Warwick Castle, so we regularly see the birds of prey they use flying overhead. Had to stop for a family of ducks to cross the road one day last year.
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