F.a.o Melv.

[Tilly2]

Have you seen the vulture?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/truly-magnificent-sight-bearded-vulture-193631331.html

[Tilly2]

He must be out looking for it. :-)

[Chipchopper]

With a wing-span like that (283cm) I think its carried him away!

[Tilly2]

Do you reckon so, Chip?

[rowanwitch]

Missed it, be wonderful if some of his friends came with him and settled here, that would really give the farmers something to worry about

[Tilly2]

That's true Rowan. There would be uproar about missing lambs. The fact that its a threatened species would not make much difference.

[Chipchopper]

If its carrion and bones they eat maybe they'l do a good clean up service.

[melv16]

Whoops, just seen this thread. I'll be going early morning one day this week. There shouldn't be many twitchers or toggers in the area.

[Tilly2]

Best wishes for that. I hope you get a sighting.

[Chipchopper]

To see them in flight is is truly an awesome sight

[melv16]

I'm off to see it early Fri morning:-)

[melv16]

Yaaayyy. Went this morning and only had to wait an hour to see it. It's 'king huge and well worth getting up at 5.30.

[melv16]

It'll be a miracle if the lammergier survives. With gamekeepers using poison, shotguns and stink pits (Google it).

[melv16]

https://mobile.twitter.com/RaptorPersScot/status/1287715176280711169/photo/1
I fear that the same has happened to the BV.

[ladybirder]

Stunning Tilly.
There was a video of a Yorkshire Dales gamekeeper with a captured raptor in a cage. He killed it and walked off with it in a bag. Can't remember what it was, might've been a Hobby. Sickening.

[melv16]

Amazingly it's still alive! Been spotted hunting South of the grouse moors, where it's much safer:-)

[Tilly2]

That is good news, Melv. Fingers crossed for it. Is there just the one?

[melv16]

Just the one, Tilly. It's only the second sighting ever in the UK. I might pop out tomorrow to one of the 'edges' to have a look see. Probably Curbar.

[Tilly2]

I hope you get to see it again, Melv.

[melv16]

Looking at some of the previous answers, I can inform that the bird is a vulture and only eats carrion. This species mainly eats bones, hence the nickname.. bonecrusher.
They drop the bones on to rocks to break them. They also do this to tortoises when they can catch them.

[melv16]

Went to Curbur edge this morning, only thing I saw was a kestrel.