buzzard

Common Buzzard

This is a record shot, just so that I can tell you the tale. I was sitting in the hide looking over the view I showed you yesterday, when this bird flew underneath us. My first thought was Sparrowhawk, so I jumped up and tried to get pictures of him as he flew round the hide (it's sort of...

Dark phase bird

There were actually two of them, but I couldn't get a picture showing both. They were pretty high in the sky and finding them in the view finder wasn't that easy. They did go an settle in some trees below, but on the other side of the crown, so couldn't get a picture of them down there. I've a...

This is the sedentary Pernis ptilorhynchus torquatus "Tweeddale" morph which mimics a Blyth's Hawk Eagle.

Have a great weekend y'all.

Common Buzzard surveying his territory.

The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) is a medium-to-large bird of prey whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia. Over much of its range, it is resident year-round, but birds from the colder parts of the northern hemisphere typically migrate south (some well into the southern...

One of five displaying together that day

A pair of White-eyed Buzzards mating. Bandhavgarh National Park, India (April, 2014)

Took this whilst out walking this evening , it was low light so excuse the quality

Think I need to add some secateurs to my camera bag to deal with those branches!