Closer to home, but still not the Ely10, the first weekend of December opened with a trip in the gloom to Holme Fen. A small party of Redpoll greeted us in the roadside birches, no Mealies or anything paler with them but a thoroughly enjoyable circus of acrobats who swirled away as quickly as they had arrived. The first of the two Rough-legged Buzzards frequenting the Fen was quickly found, distantly patrolling the ditch line and hovering frequently.
Crossing the wooded Fen to have a quick look for the other Rough-leg, it, to our great surprise and pleasure, found us. A hasty exit from the car afforded us great views as it flew across the adjacent field, landed on the roadside and then flew back towards us being robustly harried by the local corvids, over our heads and then swung in deep into the wood.
Sadly a couple of days later this bird was killed, apparently not sufficiently experienced with traffic to avoid a collision when feeding from road kill.
A trip to the supermarket took a long detour to have another look for the Hooded Crow at Long Drove, Cottenham and this time successfully and in the Ely10 to boot.
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