While scanning the windbreak around the sugarcane fields with my binoculars, a dark-morph Grey-faced Buzzard jumped into view. I was looking for a different bird, but what a welcome encounter. ^^

No doubt it's an adult, but which sex? The greyish face and lack of any supercilium trace make me think male — but the face looks gentler than individuals from the south. If anyone can tell, please let me know.

With a little light on it, the face looks even more distinctly grey.

From the back. The dark-morph Grey-faced Buzzard has a black face and uniformly brown upperparts.

It perched nearby, but the she-oak leaves are in the way. ^^;