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c00ps

Driving back from Bedford to St Neots just now. Pretty sure an Osprey flew over (surely even I couldn’t confuse it with anything else?). Magnificent thing. Didn’t know they were round here. No pics, obviously (driving).

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andyp in reply to @c00ps

I saw one a few years ago, sat on a fence post next to the railway line just south of Cambridge. They are migratory, spending the winter in Africa then returning to the UK in spring. There are quite a few breeding pairs who reside on Rutland Water, so it's no surprise to see one in Bedfordshire.

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c00ps in reply to @andyp

Cool. I’ve seen them through binoculars in Wales, just not with the naked eye. Starkly dark and white with the eye stripe and huge, long primary feathers and a big wingspan vs body - couldn’t be anything else.

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