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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 9
Image Taken on 10 Oct 2009
at 12:33 Image of day on 13 Nov 2009
A buzzard making a flyover.
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Image Taken on 31 May 2009
at 10:58 Image of day on 25 Jun 2009
The buzzards are also in evidence and flying quite low.
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Image Taken on 20 Feb 2009
at 13:22 Image of day on 14 Mar 2009
Buzzards are occasionally circling over our patch making use of
the updraft from the North wind to gain height. First the classic
hanging in the air view.
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Image Taken on 21 Feb 2009
at 14:46 Image of day on 14 Mar 2009
And then a view that really makes it clear that this bird is a hunter.
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Image Taken on 21 Dec 2008
at 10:53 Image of day on 12 Jan 2009
For just a few minutes the sun broke through the clouds luring us outside.
We were lucky that our 'noisy' buzzard chose this moment to make a lazy
flyby against the clouds and a patch of blue. The lack a thermals
provides a more active view than the usual hanging in the updraft.
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Image Taken on 22 Aug 2008
at 11:15 Image of day on 06 Sep 2008
As the grass re-grows in the field to North & East the Kestrels
and Buzzards are taking an interest again. One that consistently
calls in flight did a low flyby and a few circles.
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Image Taken on 01 Mar 2010
at 13:23 Image of day on 29 Mar 2010
Some sunshine on a cold day brought out the buzzards to use the
thermals. But this one was flying by - these are accurately
positioned successive frames.
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Image Taken on 24 Feb 2016
at 11:18 Image of day on 24 Mar 2016
What we assume is a family of 4 Buzzards in a thermal moved near to
our patch (but mostly rather high). One of them was much lower than
the others but still circling. Just an impression here.
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Image Taken on 06 Oct 2016
at 10:30 Image of day on 21 Nov 2016
An adult Buzzard turning away from us on the 'sunny side' with feathers nicely underlit.
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Image Taken on 13 Mar 2017
at 11:10 Image of day on 23 Apr 2017
A few minutes later the Buzzard flew right by us ...
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Image Taken on 25 Mar 2016
at 08:44 Image of day on 27 Apr 2016
Buzzards appear on some sunny days with 'puffy' clouds - one of the conditions that
creates Thermals.
This is an impression of a Buzzard turning in a thermal nearly above us.
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Image Taken on 20 Mar 2017
at 10:32 Image of day on 30 Apr 2017
A Buzzard flies by behind one of the Poplars lining the Farm Road
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Image Taken on 20 Mar 2017
at 10:32 Image of day on 30 Apr 2017
Buzzard in flight (part of a larger montage).
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Image Taken on 16 Aug 2017
at 16:38 Image of day on 06 Oct 2017
The Buzzard made this powered flyby as part of exploring the area.
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Image Taken on 28 Aug 2014
at 17:48 Image of day on 06 Nov 2014
3 moments from a buzzard flying past, spaced about 1 second
apart arbitrarily spaced.
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Image Taken on 28 Aug 2014
at 17:48 Image of day on 06 Nov 2014
We normally try to avoid showing you images where birds are
blinking or have their eyes protected by the inner eyelids - the
nictating (aka nictitating) membrane - because it gives the wrong
impression. But a sequence at 7 frames per second of this buzzard
in flight had just one frame with the membrane over the eye as it
blinked, so we are showing you how it looks like a diseased eye
but is not.
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Image Taken on 10 Jul 2009
at 08:51 Image of day on 06 Aug 2009
From a nearby bridleway a Corvid-Buzzard skirmish disappeared out
of site over the overgrown hedge. But the buzzard on its own then
did a lovely flyover of which this montage probably represents
between half and 1 second real time. Spacing is for effect rather
than accuracy - actual positions unknown.
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Image Taken on 06 Aug 2017
at 10:12 Image of day on 22 Sep 2017
Some loud Buzzard cries over the CCTV system prompted a speedy exit from the
back door to catch this wonderful creature quite low right overhead. It was so
close that the wing tips on the left image are out of frame.
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Image Taken on 07 Jul 2014
at 07:16 Image of day on 17 Sep 2014
This buzzard flew by atypically close and we grabbed the moment.
This is the 1st and 3rd of the best, but NOT accurately spaced
against the bland sky
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Image Taken on 21 Jul 2017
at 16:32 Image of day on 06 Sep 2017
The Buzzard reversed direction and flew back past us. This is 3 selected frames closely spaced.
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