I reckon the timing issue and place is of marginal concern. Yes migrants like some sort of route and some sort of schedule. But it is all hay-wire when they hit the equator and arrive in monsoon-influenced areas.
We have for example, right now, European Hobbys. They are moving up from the south.........heading for rain to our north; when folks would like them to be moving south. Who cares? They only care for finding food, wherever the conditions in Africa are the most favourable.
The obvious juvenile is disputably a Black-breasted Snake-Eagle or a Short-toed. But I suspect it is a first year BBSE.
The other does look like a Short-toed. I'll will try to download it and see it carefully at home on my own computer.
Have just come from India, and saw a few 'Short-toeds' there.
They fly a little differently to Black- breasted S-Es, appearing heavier and broader winged.
But the two can be sometimes only separable in the hand. Remember that Bill Clark examined a specimen of Short-toed taken from Lake Turkana and found it to be a Black-breasted despite all.
Simon Thomsett: initial ideas on 'the latest Eagle'
I reckon the timing issue and place is of marginal concern. Yes migrants like some sort of route and some sort of schedule. But it is all hay-wire when they hit the equator and arrive in monsoon-influenced areas.
We have for example, right now, European Hobbys. They are moving up from the south.........heading for rain to our north; when folks would like them to be moving south. Who cares? They only care for finding food, wherever the conditions in Africa are the most favourable.
The obvious juvenile is disputably a Black-breasted Snake-Eagle or a Short-toed. But I suspect it is a first year BBSE.
The other does look like a Short-toed. I'll will try to download it and see it carefully at home on my own computer.
Have just come from India, and saw a few 'Short-toeds' there.
They fly a little differently to Black- breasted S-Es, appearing heavier and broader winged.
But the two can be sometimes only separable in the hand. Remember that Bill Clark examined a specimen of Short-toed taken from Lake Turkana and found it to be a Black-breasted despite all.