Monday 29 April 2019

First "Kettle" over A47 (A12) at Lowestoft

Driving back after work, on Monday 29th April at 5.30pm, I saw my first ever flying "kettle" of raptors, namely 5 Common Buzzards circling just west of the dual carraigeway, directly over the closed lay-by just north of the Corton, Long Lane roundabout at North Lowestoft. A "Kettle" in birding parlance terms is a term used to a denote a number of raptors spiralling around usually on trying to get getting some lift on with the aid of thermals (conserving energy by the minimum flapping of wings) usually over such great raptor migration places that I have witnessed such as Gibraltar, the Bospheros or Eilat- first time I've seen it over Lowestoft!

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