White-tailed Eagle at Hornsea Mere

 A quick post to say that we had a White-tailed Eagle at the Mere this morning! 

 

Dale found it and as I had just left him 5 minutes before, he rang to tell me. We met on the south shore to view the bird over the water to the north side.

 

First view at 08:10 through the camera lens (600mm). We were half a mile away.

 

The view to the eagle from the Mere south side

I've cropped a few of the photos I took and they are awful. The digiscoped photos are better, but not much, so just about record shots. It always had its back to us while I was there so no good looking for the massive beak 😂

This and two below are cropped off the camera

Digiscoped photos to the phone:

I had great views of the beast through the scope (thanks Dale) but the photos are merely reminders of a great morning.