Harry

this Marsh Harrier at Worlaby is proving a bit tricky to age---the uniform looking underparts, deep dark brown, the dark uppertail and paler (newly moulted rump?) and th epale tipped greater primary coverts suggest that it is a juvenile but it appeares to have some features of a female, pale patches on median and lesser upperwing coverts and pale creamy collar on the upper breast which are not normally aquired until first-winter but it is of course already late November so it could well be a juvenile/first-winter