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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 13
Image Taken on 20 Jul 2023
at 12:48 Image of day on 13 Sep 2023
Here we have a Buzzard spiralling across the sky.
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Image Taken on 20 Jul 2023
at 12:48 Image of day on 13 Sep 2023
The real size of the circles is many times as big as this, but a spiral of 'brown dots' is
not very satisfying. So here we offer an 'impression' made from a genuine sequence
from an original over 100 frames.
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Image Taken on 13 Nov 2023
at 11:41 Image of day on 21 Dec 2023
A Kestrel suddenly appears over the meadow and makes a few threatening passes above the Buzzard,
never getting quite close enough to appear in the fixed camera's frame.
Here the Buzzard is following the bird across the sky.
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Image Taken on 13 Nov 2023
at 11:42 Image of day on 22 Dec 2023
This was the Buzzard's reaction to another Kestrel flyovers.
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Image Taken on 13 Nov 2023
at 11:42 Image of day on 22 Dec 2023
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Image Taken on 13 Mar 2013
at 10:39 Image of day on 17 Apr 2013
A breeze and sunshine brought out the local 3 buzzards and
one of them came close enough to us for some portraits
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Image Taken on 24 Feb 2010
at 13:41 Image of day on 24 Mar 2010
A solitary buzzard found a thermal right over our patch and
up it went, but not before we caught this portrait.
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Image Taken on 27 Aug 2008
at 15:57 Image of day on 15 Sep 2008
We have at least 5 buzzards seen together a few times soaring in
the thermals over and near our patch. You would think this was
the middle of nowhere rather than a few miles outside Milton
Keynes. One or two of them are particularly voluble as here
flying directly overhead (guess 20m high).
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Image Taken on 07 Aug 2014
at 15:22 Image of day on 17 Oct 2014
For a couple of weeks this Buzzard spent a lot of time perched on
the Crossbars of the 11KV overhead cable. On this afternoon the
bird flew from this nearer crossbar down into the stubble of the
recently harvested Oil-seed.
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Image Taken on 28 Jan 2022
at 10:03 Image of day on 28 Feb 2022
From a downstairs window this hand-held camera could follow the action a bit better.
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Image Taken on 07 Aug 2014
at 15:23 Image of day on 17 Oct 2014
The bird stayed on the stubble for about a minute, not obviously
catching anything (but we may have missed it), and then took off
back towards the high voltage poles.
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Image Taken on 20 Mar 2016
at 11:15 Image of day on 21 Apr 2016
As the sun gains some warmth we have started seeing Buzzards
using the local thermals to gain height. Usually single birds as here,
but so far up to 3 in a single shaft of rising air.
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Image Taken on 16 Jan 2018
at 09:11 Image of day on 20 Feb 2018
The Buzzard swung back and made this turn over about 1 second.
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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2018
at 14:03 Image of day on 12 Dec 2018
This Buzzard makes an appearance, shown here turning over about 1.5 seconds.
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Image Taken on 27 Oct 2019
at 12:30 Image of day on 10 Dec 2019
10 minutes later the much bigger Buzzard made a similar pass at a greater height.
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Image Taken on 18 Jan 2018
at 15:17 Image of day on 18 Feb 2018
This Buzzard made at least 2 visits to the meadow post on this day.
This several minutes stay provide the opportunity for a few portraits.
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Image Taken on 18 Jan 2018
at 15:19 Image of day on 18 Feb 2018
Finger ready over the shutter button, as the Buzzard started to get a little
restless, caught the Buzzard as it flew off to the next hunting post.
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Image Taken on 03 Apr 2018
at 12:43 Image of day on 11 May 2018
A closer view of the light coloured Buzzard shows the wings in a shorter and
broader configuration, probably better for gliding rather than 'shaking off' the Rook.
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Image Taken on 20 Mar 2016
at 11:24 Image of day on 21 Apr 2016
As the sun gains some warmth we have started seeing Buzzards
using the local thermals to gain height. Here Buzzards circling
'lazily' to gain height before setting off on a hunt.
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Image Taken on 30 Sep 2012
at 12:28 Image of day on 08 Nov 2012
What seemed to the eye to be a momentary interaction between
these two buzzards turns out to have been a rather more serious
attack. These 3 montages show the action at about 5 fps (frames
per second) of little more than 2 seconds of action. Read the
montages left to right in the order presented.
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