Lammergeier

A trip up to Dartmoor this morning saw us on the moor near Merrivale looking for the immature Lammergeier again and we spent five and a half hours there without having any luck , we then headed off to look at other areas of the moor , we were heading towards the Warren House Inn when we pulled into a small car park to check on line for any bird news and as it was we met up with another bird photographer Gray Clements and he was telling me about a Common Cuckoo that he had photographed when all of a sudden his wife got out of their car and said what is that bird above us , as Gray and I looked up at the bird to my amazement my eyes logged onto the Lammergeier , I only had a brief time and I mean brief !!! to take in the size of the bird with a huge wingspan and that superb looking tail before it vanished from sight over the hill , it then turned out that Grays wife who is not a birder had been watching the bird for around 10 minutes when he was off getting shots of the Cuckoo but didn`t have a clue what she was looking at  !!! we then went back to tell the other birders that were still at Merrivale about the sighting but the bird just seemed to have vanished again over the moor just like it has done before .