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Yesterday I could resist no longer, and headed down to Ashdown Forest with Carl C to see the Short-toed Eagle. After a bit of searching, some rapid carpark switching, and then some aimless-feeling hanging around, someone did well to pick it out sat up in a tree near Long carpark. Scope views were decent, although my digiscoped pictures are definitely not. Unfortunately (and perhaps predictably), it chose to fly off when I nipped back to the car to get some water, but I did get flight views of it through my bins. A quality bird.