Honey Buzzard Acres Down New Forest.

Meeting up at 5.30 with Brian we make a very late decision on route to head off to the New Forest in search of Honey Buzzard.
Arriving at Acres Down around 8 o'clock we park up & join two other birders over looking the valley, there had been no sighting of the Buzzard but one of the fellows tells us that he had great views of one yesterday,so we set up the scopes & wait.
A couple of Goshawks show & a couple of Common Buzzard keep us interested, then around 10 o'clock with at least 20 people here now the cry goes up Honey Buzzard coming towards us & it was a dark colour & not the one they had yesterday,the only trouble was all three of us couldn't spot it & it had gone out of sight behind the trees.
Felt a bit miffed about that as you don't know if that is the only sight there is going to be today.
But all of a sudden we all get on the lighter one as it comes out of the clouds & we get a long view of it as it flies lower & we think it is on the way towards us when a single Goshawk decides to attack it & that goes on for quite a few minutes to give us all great scope views of both birds but it eventually sends the Buzzard away & it never returned while we were here. But we do see a low flying Peregrine which was nice.
A walk around the woods gets us a view of a Wood Warbler & a year tick when we see 2 male & a female Redstart.
 So a good decision to come here a long drive but you don't see Honey Buzzard & Goshawk that often so well worth the drive.