Bird info help please (1 Viewer)

Hi, could someone please help me ID a bird for me and help me on why it should be were i spotted it,i am a keen wildlife phpotographer and i will be honest i can only ID the most common birds,but i love taking pics of any bird ,i am a member of the RSPB and WWT so i am still learning,however yesterday while walking my dog i spotted what looked like a bird of prey right next door to were in some land just off the main road,i got a pic but not a good one as it was misty and wet and i only had a 18-55mm lens available at the time ,my 100-400mm is in for repair (sods law) it seemed to be strugling taking off and it did look wet through , it did manage to fly up on a fence a few hundred feet from were i spotted it and the sight afterwards was something i have never seen before ,thier must have been , and i am not exagerating over a hundred crows and magpies that just apeared and some were diving down as though to attack ,one magpie even landed and sat a couple of feet from the bird,the bird just sat thier ,the most we get were i live is owls and kestrels , i am not sure what hapened to the bird as i disapeared in to a gully and landed , and i had to get back to work.Any info on why it would be here or a ID would be really apreciated .Thanks
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Looks like a buzzard to me ... sounds like it got quite a mobbing from your description.

Mick Harris said:

Looks like a buzzard to me ... sounds like it got quite a mobbing from your description.

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Thanks for the reply,would the buzzard be able to protect itself ,as thier were loads of them,and i wouldn't like to think that so many crows would attack it.

Mick Harris said:

Looks like a buzzard to me ... sounds like it got quite a mobbing from your description.

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that's a juvenile Rough-legged Buzzard

crows are very clever at recognising something different

ed keeble said:

that's a juvenile Rough-legged Buzzard

crows are very clever at recognising something different

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I have lived here over 10 years and i have never seen a buzzard ,could it have got lost .

A well-soaked juvenile Rough-legged Buzzard

den9112 said:

I have lived here over 10 years and i have never seen a buzzard ,could it have got lost .

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you've actually got quite a rare bird from Scandinavia there- just a few tens of R-l Buzzards make it to the UK most recent winters: only three or four records from the UK so far this autumn, so far as I have noticed

so its not lost, but its pretty unusual

whether it survives depends on whether it gets lucky and finds somewhere with plenty of voles and whether its hunting skills are up to it

I should add that, if this is the first buzzard you have seen in ten years and its a Roughleg, you should also check your lottery tickets..

indeed a rough legged buzzard - excellent find.

cracking bird

What a great sighting, well done.

Before i went home for my camera , i actually got to within 20ft of it .its a pity i didn't have my 100-400 to hand as i would have got some clear shots.Really pleased i got to within touching distance of a rare bird to be seen over here.