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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stonefaction" data-source="post: 3250293" data-attributes="member: 83980">I searched other photos of Buzzards being mobbed by other species and found photos with a similar long necked, small headed appearance, due to the bird's neck being stretched out to improve visibility of the mobbing birds as they approached. (There were Honey Buzzard photos came up in the search also, but these tended to be very obviously different).I also found a few of my own photos where the lighting on the back of the head/neck meant that this particular area seemed to melt into the background (unless you zoomed close enough in to see the detail). This was compounded when the bird was further from the camera.I've attached 3 other stills from your video, which don't show the particular features you've chosen to focus on. Based on these 3 what would you say it was?</blockquote>