BTO Bird ID - Grey Harriers

Harriers are stunning, lithe and elegant birds of prey. Two species of grey harrier are regularly found in the UK, Hen and Montagu's - the males are relatively easy to separate, but the females and young birds can be more tricky.

[MrFoai]

I remember when i first saw a male harrier silhouette in the air and i was shocked. It looked like to me a sea bird because of white coloration with black wing tips but it was a predator flight i could tell. It is not common or popular in my country so i attacked all the bird id books-web sites and found it was a grey harrier male. A few days later i saw him again flying in a cloudy weather and he shocked me again. When he was making turns in the air, at some point because of cloudy background and his grey color HE WAS STEALTH! Vanishing easily if you don't look carefully. What a stunner bird, perfect predator with lots of differences from other predators.

[MrFoai]

Thank you for all detailed information, you are the best!

[touchedbynature]

Excellent very informative and helpful. Many Thanks.

[DjDolHaus]

I think I saw one of these on Dartmoor, swooped down into some trees near where I was fishing as the rain started to fall. It emerged from the woods about an hour later before swooping under a tree and having an altercation with some sparrows by the sounds of it, saw it swoop out of the tree again and back into the woods where it disappeared. I don't know much about bird identifying but the mention of it being bigger than a kestrel/sparrowhawk but smaller than a buzzard was the only way I could describe it

[masaa]

at the end it says next video "Goshawk Sparrowhawk" but it's not on your channel?

[alexcaudwell]

I think I saw a harrier but I don't know which it was between a male hen or Montagu's