Just caught a Buzzard(?)/wild bird of prey...
18 July 2014, 10:40 AM
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That noise of the buzzard is what is used in films where you are supposed to be hearing vultures circling overhead. Vultures don't make any such noises so the buzzard's call was used as it's so distinctive.
The buzzard always looks to be getting a kicking from crows but this is because the crows play clever and the buzzard knows it can't get them all the time the crows are above it. Crows will always stay above the buzzard, if the buzzard tries to go up to get them the crows just increase altitude at the same time. You will never see crows go below the buzzard, if they do they better be heading in a stoop straight for cover or they know they will be buzzard food.
The crows are actually doing no harm to the buzzard at all, they are trying to drive the buzzard out of their territory as it's mainly a carrion eater and a danger to their young or anything they may want to be scavenging. They look to be hitting the buzzard on the back but never get close enough because the buzzard could flip and grab them so it's all just harassment as opposed to a physical attack.
The buzzard is an incredibly lazy bird hence it's bu66er all use in falconry unless you like standing in a field all day watching it sitting in a tree or on top of a telegraph pole. When you see them soaring they are 99% of the time looking for dead stuff, they won't expend energy chasing rabbits if it can find left overs from fox catches. They will also eat worms, frogs, small mammals such as mice and voles and large insects. Occasionally they take game birds but again it's got to be an easy catch for them to bother. They really aren't the predator they look like they are and no such great threat to gamekeepers who will always try to tell you the buzzard is a mass killer.
I love the common buzzard (despite it's laziness), I have a lot where I live and see them daily and they will regularly fly low over me whilst i'm out walking my dogs.
The buzzard always looks to be getting a kicking from crows but this is because the crows play clever and the buzzard knows it can't get them all the time the crows are above it. Crows will always stay above the buzzard, if the buzzard tries to go up to get them the crows just increase altitude at the same time. You will never see crows go below the buzzard, if they do they better be heading in a stoop straight for cover or they know they will be buzzard food.
The crows are actually doing no harm to the buzzard at all, they are trying to drive the buzzard out of their territory as it's mainly a carrion eater and a danger to their young or anything they may want to be scavenging. They look to be hitting the buzzard on the back but never get close enough because the buzzard could flip and grab them so it's all just harassment as opposed to a physical attack.
The buzzard is an incredibly lazy bird hence it's bu66er all use in falconry unless you like standing in a field all day watching it sitting in a tree or on top of a telegraph pole. When you see them soaring they are 99% of the time looking for dead stuff, they won't expend energy chasing rabbits if it can find left overs from fox catches. They will also eat worms, frogs, small mammals such as mice and voles and large insects. Occasionally they take game birds but again it's got to be an easy catch for them to bother. They really aren't the predator they look like they are and no such great threat to gamekeepers who will always try to tell you the buzzard is a mass killer.
I love the common buzzard (despite it's laziness), I have a lot where I live and see them daily and they will regularly fly low over me whilst i'm out walking my dogs.
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18 July 2014, 04:55 PM
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[QUOTE=An0n0m0us;11471297]That noise of the buzzard is what is used in films where you are supposed to be hearing vultures circling overhead. Vultures don't make any such noises so the buzzard's call was used as it's so
First time I went to France in a holiday cottage I heard two for the first time, (the buzzard that it) and it was like the birds you hear flying in the spaghetti westerns.
The sound they make is like nothing else you will hear hear in the bird world.
First time I went to France in a holiday cottage I heard two for the first time, (the buzzard that it) and it was like the birds you hear flying in the spaghetti westerns.
The sound they make is like nothing else you will hear hear in the bird world.
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19 July 2014, 12:06 AM
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Yep, definitely a buzzard. Beautiful birds. On a calm day you can hear them "mewing" when they circle.
Used to be a rare sight in our skies but their numbers have, with a lot of effort, risen massively in the last 20 years.
Common in Warwickshire where I used to live and a regular sight for me up here in Lancashire and Cumbria. I was quite lucky to see a pair of them in Tenerife at the end of January in a place called Guia De Isora, they are rare birds there.
Used to be a rare sight in our skies but their numbers have, with a lot of effort, risen massively in the last 20 years.
Common in Warwickshire where I used to live and a regular sight for me up here in Lancashire and Cumbria. I was quite lucky to see a pair of them in Tenerife at the end of January in a place called Guia De Isora, they are rare birds there.
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