Home and Stokesby Norfolk.

In the garden birds seemed on edge with sky watching gulls. This turned into an issue around 9:57 am when a raptor appeared well off south over the river. View was very brief on both occasions. But it was being given a hard time by 4 CROWS. I had all of 6 seconds to view it and came initially to the conclusion that it was a pale phase Common Buzzard. But when I sent tweet out it became apparent that a OSPREY had been seen at North Denes at 9:55am.
So what did I see in such a short time and what gave me to believe that this bird was pale and could it have been the OSPREY mentioned.
1.  I did see an eye mask on the bird.
2.  The bird was light brown on upper wing.
3.  It was flying so low that I could see its upper wing, in fact it was being given such a hard time and was flying at about 7- feet due west along Lake Loathingland.
4. It flight was not a typical of a Buzzard, but in retrospect it was of an Osprey.
Conclusion is that this is what I saw and although I was not able to id it. I have little doubt as to it real identity.

So I will make it a garden tick and a year tick.

Stokesby:   Best bird here was a WHITE WAGTAIL. I had 2 KESTREL and 2 COMMON TERN with JACKDAW, CROW, ROOK, GREY HERON, SEDGE WARBLER, COMMON WHITETHROAT, REED BUNTING, SWIFT 2 and SWALLOW.

This is now the 9th day that Sally has been sitting out her nesting duties with some relief when Harry gets the idea.