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Birds - Buzzard Page 16
Image Taken on 13 Nov 2023
at 11:45 Image of day on 22 Dec 2023
The Kestrel now given up the unequal confrontation, the Buzzard gives themselves a pedicure.
Difficult to make out? The birds head is tilted horizontal to the viewers right
with the lifted claw just below the beak.
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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 09 Feb 2019
at 09:38 Image of day on 08 Mar 2019
... because the Buzzard then spent 6 minutes in watchful contemplation.
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Image Taken on 07 Aug 2014
at 15:31 Image of day on 17 Oct 2014
The bird landed on the crossbar of the pole next one down (say
100m further from us) but his head was hidden by the nearer wire.
When paying more attention the head came up and we got this shot
8 minutes later. We never see Buzzards perching even on the heavy
gauge cables - we guess that the birds are just too heavy and
feet too big to comfortably grip a cable.
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Image Taken on 19 Jan 2024
at 10:41 Image of day on 12 Feb 2024
Part way through the morning where the temperature reached -8.8C the previous
night and is still -0.2C at 10:40 (figures captured in retrospect from our Ecowitt records).
Looking south over the neighbouring fields the frost is so heavy you might think that this
was light snow if we couldn't assure you that this is 'just' frost.
That little speck on the post is definitely a Buzzard.
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Image Taken on 31 Jan 2019
at 14:44 Image of day on 24 Feb 2019
A post installed a couple of decades ago as a lonely feature among a 'sea' of
plastic tree shelters is now almost lost in the maturing trees at 3 times it's
height. But this Buzzard seems to like it.
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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2023
at 10:55 Image of day on 03 Dec 2023
The Buzzard doesn't fly away as we expect, but flies about 50 metres away from the house
to land on a quite flimsy 'post' on Duck Pond's tiny island.
This pic was taken with a hand-held camera from outside the house, largely
obscured by a piece of non-boundary hedge. Original is badly underexposed.
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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2023
at 10:55 Image of day on 03 Dec 2023
The Buzzard now quickly spotted the humans and made their departure to the South ...
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Image Taken on 12 Sep 2024
at 12:32 Image of day on 26 Oct 2024
Half an hour later stepping out of the house we were not expecting to see
this Buzzard, now perched on the top of the wood power pole about 30m south
of the Meadow Post. The Buzzard wasn't pleased to see us, and quickly vanished.
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Image Taken on 16 Dec 2016
at 13:25 Image of day on 25 Jan 2017
Our current 'local Buzzard' perched in the broken Ash tree to our south.
The bird doesn't seem to have a favourite branch to perch on, choosing
any of about 10 horizontal and stout branches.
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Image Taken on 31 Oct 2016
at 13:39 Image of day on 12 Dec 2016
The Buzzard landed in the broken limbed Ash tree to our South, and spent several
minutes eyeing over the territory (mostly sprouting wheat crop).
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Image Taken on 24 Dec 2021
at 12:49 Image of day on 30 Jan 2022
A Buzzard perched on an 11kV cable.
We assume that this is a young bird - fully mature birds seem to be
too heavy to be comfortable doing this.
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Image Taken on 26 Sep 2021
at 12:14 Image of day on 08 Nov 2021
We think that this must be a different buzzard perched on the 11kV cables over
the Bridleway to the north. Only the lighter juveniles regularly perch on the cables -
the mature birds rarely stay long on the hard small area of the cables and prefer
the more comfortable crossbars.
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Image Taken on 05 Aug 2016
at 18:06 Image of day on 27 Sep 2016
Over the years we have mentioned that Buzzards don't perch on wires, assuming
that their weight and foot design make this uncomfortable. Well this buzzard,
some 200m away from us, spent a few minutes perched on the wire before flying
back to the brook.
So maybe ... Buzzards don't often perch on wires ...
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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2018
at 17:31 Image of day on 01 Dec 2018
While watching from about 100 metres away, this buzzard flew from further away
to land on this cross-bar and start hunting in the evening sunlight.
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Ref: 20181201_df3_20181009_1731_067+075+074 buzzard perched on 11kv power line crossbar (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Dec 2021
at 12:44 Image of day on 13 Jan 2022
We haven't seen much of Buzzards or Red Kite this week, but did spot this
Buzzard bending down a twig that can just support the bird's weight.
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Ref: 20220113_df3_20211209_1244_068 buzzard perched on tree at brook(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Apr 2014
at 17:53 Image of day on 05 Jun 2014
This buzzard was flying low over a pasture to our south, with a Rook
harassing the Buzzard enough for it to show beak and claws for a moment.
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Image Taken on 13 Feb 2017
at 16:20 Image of day on 21 Mar 2017
This Buzzard spent at least 15 minutes on the post. The strong Easterly wind
(towards camera) means most birds are landing with back to camera at the moment, as here.
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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2021
at 14:18 Image of day on 03 Mar 2021
A Buzzard hasn't been apparent in the sky, so we were surprised
to find this visit recorded on the Meadow post in the afternoon.
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