Common Buzzard Behaviour (1 Viewer)

Common Buzzard Behaviour, Laax Switzerland

While photographing some swallows I saw two buzzards hunting together - well, more-or-less together.

Would it be safe to assume that these are the parents and that the eggs have now hatched?

I've not yet got a decent photograph - always been something else happening :-C !

Click here for same buzzard in my garden
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Simon HB9DRV said:

While photographing some swallows I saw two buzzards hunting together - well, more-or-less together.

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I suspect that they are not hunting together, but displaying together. Our local buzzards often soar together over their woodland nesting site and the immediate area. They hunt over the fields. Sometimes the soaring display is followed by a switchback display (100 metre long shallow glide with wings folded right back and then the bird flares out its wings and goes up steeply for about 10 metres- repeated five/six times).

The posture of the birds in your photos (wings and tail highly extended, allowing them to soar very slowly) suggests to me that they are displaying, not hunting.

But I could be wrong!

Pete

Thanks - they do this in the same area on a daily basis - now with luck I'll get 200m above the nest in 4 or 5 weeks time and get some good shots.

By 200m above I mean 200m up the side of the mountain, this should be far enough away I hope - any thoughts on this?