As a child to see the Common Buzzard in the East Anglian countryside was despite its name quite rare, confined mainly to the west and South West of England, Wales and Scotland I did not see my first Buzzard until I was in my late teens and then it was only on trips to the Lake District.

Now happily they are becoming quite a common sight in the East Anglian Landscape, I am beginning to see one and sometimes a pair  in a field not far from me, in fact only this afternoon as drove past this field one flew over the road to a small group of trees at the edge of the field, despite the rain when I got home I grabbed my camera and walked back to the trees only to see the Buzzard flying away from me being hounded by a group of Rooks.

Common Buzzard

Whilst Buzzards are fairly easy to identify, we now get variations on what I once used to think was an easily identified bird, the Pied Wagtail, small, black and white, with a long tail constantly wagged up and down, it’s latin name is Motacilla yarrellii, but we now have the white wagtail Motacilla alba, so this morning when I saw two wagtails on the road I took some quick photos and came home to consult my bird books and everything seemed to point to that I had seen the white wagtail as it had the light grey back and slight yellow tinged throat or could it have been a Juvenile Pied Wagtail? sometimes it can get just too confusing.

White Wagtail maybe Juvenile

Pied Wagtail

As an update I can confirm from this second photograph I took it is a Male 1st Winter White Wagtail

1st Winter Male White Wagtail

very helpful website figure 3 confirmed http://www.the-soc.org.uk/docs/white-wagtail-id.pdf