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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Biancone" data-source="post: 3434753" data-attributes="member: 78140">Hi Kinthissa, I have never heard a Honey call while on the ground so cannot help with your call question!  My laptop has really terrible sound, and it did sound at first a little like a distant Common Buzzard juvenile food-begging or contact call (quite a thin 'piping' note), and I wondered if you were mistaken about the origin, but then it does seem at a couple of points to match the Honey's beak movement!  And the call does sound a bit like a note chopped out of the Honey typical more extended flight call, and much quieter. I don't recall finding anything the same on xeno-canto, but that was a while ago, so worth investigating for sure. To pick up a point in your earlier post, I have certainly seen fewer Common Buzzards around 'my' patch on the north side of the Apennines this season.  Honeys have mainly been hard to find but some days I've seen more Honeys than Commons. Perhaps the rather high numbers recently are more than the landscape can sustain long term?  But they can still be very tied up with food procurement, and when all the young are flying there may suddenly be lots in the air again; see what August brings.Cheers, Brian</blockquote>