Bizzare buzzards

[Guest MOLLY]

Ive never seen anything like it in my life. Just had the dogs out the front in the farmyard for 'hurry ups' when i heard the familiar buzzard noise, looked up and there were 40-50 buzzards all together

It was too difficult to count as they were constantly moving, but i counted 20 and there was at least double that again. I ran back into the house to phone Steve (he loves buzzards) to find out if this was as unusual as i thought, went back out with the camera to try to get 40-50 black dots on a piccie and they had all vanished

Is this unusual or the norm and ive just not seen it before?

MOLL.

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

molly's been on the mushrooms again :11:

 

 

 

molly's been on the mushrooms again :11:

 

 

could it have been crows mobbing a buzzard ??

[john b 38]

Common Buzzards prey mainly on small rodents & mammals, though they will take reptiles, amphibians, large insects, invertebrates & young birds. They will also feed on carrion, often leading to them being accused of killing such things as new born lambs. Their preferred method of finding prey is 'still hunting', sitting on a post, looking for food. Buzzards will use also wind-hovering due find their prey & are comfortable searching for beetles & earthworms by walking around on the ground. The colloquial name "Dancing Hawk" stems from their habit of landing in open fields (often freshly worked) & dancing up & down - the noise made sounds like rain to worms & makes them rise to the surface then they get eaten by the buzzards. It is not unusual for groups of buzzards to do this at the same time in a single field, there have been reports of up to 40 buzzards in a single field.

 

Not quite the same thing I grant you, but maybe connected

 

 

http://www.raptorfoundation.org.uk/commonbuzzard.html

[Guest MOLLY]

JohnB you are a genious, it was above a feshly worked field Perhaps they had been on the ground then been spooked back into the air, i only watched them for about 20 seconds, wish i had stayed longer to see where they went?

MOLL.

 

Ricky-N.p.p.....Im starting to worry Tetleys are putting something in their T-bags

 

MOLL.

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

 

 

Thats a lot of buzzards

 

the most iv seen was 7 at the same time i thought i was seein things

[john b 38]

Perhaps they had been on the ground then been spooked back into the air, MOLL.

 

MOLL.

 

 

That was my guess too. Still - it's a lot

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

it was above a feshly worked field ..... wish i had stayed longer to see where they went?

 

 

 

Ummmm ...... Back to the field? :whistle:

[Simoman 110]

Should of gone to specsavers :drunk: :whistle: :whistle:

[Hardfeather 56]

I'm not doubting what you saw Moll but its pretty strange are you sure there weren't a few buzzards calling because they were mixed up in a mob of crows it seems more likely

[Guest MOLLY]

I'm not doubting what you saw Moll but its pretty strange are you sure there weren't a few buzzards calling because they were mixed up in a mob of crows it seems more likely

Def not, because obviously thats exactly what i thought at 1st, i even thought, seagulls But each individual bird i looked at was definately a buzzard, im not saying i looked at all 40 mind, and then i remembered we dont have crows or seagulls here

What JohnB said ties in, the dogs hurtling out of the house, growling and barking to a place right next to the said field, it was probs my lots who disturbed them. I then arrive a few seconds later see all these birds. Had i stayed longer, and ive kicked myself because i didnt, i probs would have either seen them disperse or land again?

MOLL.

[Dawn B 212]

Your not bonkers Molly! We are seeing a lot of Buzzards together too. I wondered if they were youngsters?

dawn.

[Guest MOLLY]

Thank fook for that, was starting to get a bit worried

We had noticed 5 together last weekend and thought that was strange, never mind 40

Another thing i noticed apart from 3 crys they were totally silent.

MOLL.

[COMPO 54]

i recall a "Countryfile" programme that featured a fella in wales who fed the Buzzards and there would often be over a dozen swooping into his back garden, so i reckon if they will put up with each other to take food from him they will do so if there is food somewhere else, fresh cut field/carrion etc.. just a thought

[targa 5]

Its normal behaviour for buzards, they start going south (some) for the winter, and they troup togheter for who nows why.. most of the time all are the youngsters of this year.

there's a name for this behaviour, but can't remember that anymore

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Sometimes see several in the sky along with red kites on a thermal .