common buzzard

Common Buzzard

There were two of these sat on consecutive posts along this road. Fortunately some off road parking allowed me to get a couple of shots in on this one, in the early morning sunshine.

Lapwings and Bar-tailed Godwits mobbing a Common Buzzard

Another species that resides around Gigrin Farm

'Buzzard in Flight' Sorry I've got so many shots floating round I don't know where I'm at and then I have days like today where I fill a 4GB card and half an 8GB. One from earlier this month.

Flew over while I was digiscoping yesterday so I grabbed this hand held.

Maybe removing the early morning dew from its feathers to stop it freezing.

Enjoying a low viewpoint over the field whilst shrouded by morning mist.

Close Buzzard

This attractive individual is easily recognised due to its pale-fringed feathering. It has taken to sitting unobtrusively in the top of a tree behind my garden from where it periodically swoops down in the hope of grabbing one of the visiting thrushes/blackbirds. Unfortunately I can never get a...

Found this on a carcass yesterday as I was going to the hide to top up the feeders.

My first images with the spotting scope Nikon EDG 85 Specie: Specie: Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) (Linnaeus, 1758) Scope: Nikon 85mm EDG Fieldscope Eyepiece: Nikon Fsa-L2 Camera: Nikon D3000 Shutter : 1/1250 F-stop :f/13 ISO: 200 Exposure mode: Aperture priority auto (A) Cavalletto: monopod...

These guys gave me a flight show back in June in Hungary. The stork wanted to do some hunting, but the Buzzard wasn't happy with that.

Perched at Gigrin, watching the others fight over the food.

Mooching around in the long grass at Gigrin, trying not to be robbed of food by those pesky kites.