No Eagle

On Wednesday 7th May, directly after work at 2.45pm, I was planning to go and look at the Carlton Red- footed Falcons again immediately after work but amazingly the Booted Eagle had been seen flying north and west directly over Carlton Marshes and was last seen dropping down towards Burgh St Peter. I immediately drove over there, making the mistake of turning down towards Waterloo, this is a single track road with very few areas to turn the car around and I had to reverse several 1000 metres wasting around 20 minutes. I finally got to the village of Burgh St Peter and a small Falcon, a Hobby whizzed past to the left of me seen really well if briefly. I met a well known Norfolk birder and we had a good chat but no sign of the BE. We suddenly got a message to say the BE perched in a tree on the road from Burgh St. Peter to Haddiscoe, I went down 3 roads which all led to Haddiscoe and I finally saw a group of people with tripods peering intently a something in the distance, I parked up and sprinted down to them set the scope up and was told there was a very pale a very white looking Buzzard, one of the palest I have ever seen, it was perched on the left hand edge in a copse of trees in the middle of a field. Apparently the Buzzard had been mistaken for the BE, an easy mistake to make but it was good to call it out just in case it was the Eagle and equally good to correct an honest mistake. Good also to see a range of people.