Not So Good

[The one 8,530]

I can remember setting snares and having four buzzards circling and calling above you it was like they where reading a menu . the best results i got where on fence snares where the rabbits could get back threw the fence into cover and they didnt get damaged . The worst i ever had was 33 rabbits ruined in pegged snares i reckon i must of got a visit from a vixen and a litter of big cubs

[jok 3,393]

If I may piggy back the thread. Saw today, a female goshawk without Jess's. (Don't know how you say or spell it). Sitting good as gold and brazen. Didn't give me a second look. Jok.

[Born Hunter 17,837]

If I may piggy back the thread. Saw today, a female goshawk without Jess's. (Don't know how you say or spell it). Sitting good as gold and brazen. Didn't give me a second look. Jok.

 

In the East Mids? Fucks sake that's all we want!

[jok 3,393]

Bad news then Born Hunter. My brother in law flies racing pigeons. He spotted what he thought was a Goss and went to investigate. 57 leg rings. He asked me if the keeper could have a butchers. Outcome Unknown ATM. Location not a hundred yards from Twycross Zoo. MMMM.JOK.

[Guest vin]

 

https://youtu.be/nPoK2l7WBNc

I have had a look on the net and that was the first thing that came up , there was also numerous lies from various sources from all over the country stating Rabbits were a major part of the birds diet, accompanied obviously Photo-Shopped pictures, as for a Fox trying to drag that rabbit away, i doubt it ! No weak legged Leicestershire Fox would be capable of such a feat or inflicting those horrific injuries though some people [usually readers of the VIZ Book of Birds ] will tell you they will some times attack an elderly or weak chicken , these people can often be found dashing round the dales trying to kill weak legged rabbits with large amounts of gobbed out Bullshit

 

 

i saw a buzzard today...it was eating worms at the side of the road.

 

I tried to offer you some advice from my own knowledge and experience...I've kept birds of prey in the past..My mate tried for 2 seasons to enter a very large female buzzard at rabbits and failed miserably...even male goshawks sometime struggle with the size to weight ratio etc etc..basically Buzzards are not up to the job..its not an impossibility...but most likely an improbability.

 

Buzzards will always take advantage of a free easy meal,like a rabbit in a snare in the middle of a field or out in the open.. I could go on to offer you more advice on how to avoid these thefts and damages to your hard earned bunnies.

 

You obviously would rather resort to deflating my character with snide insults..

[EDDIE B 3,168]

Here's a question for any Hawkers who maybe on here. How do you go about hunting with a Buzzard? Obviously they hunt in a totally different way to most birds used for hunting, so it would be great to get an insight into how it's done, cheers!

[micky 3,325]

 

 

https://youtu.be/nPoK2l7WBNc

I have had a look on the net and that was the first thing that came up , there was also numerous lies from various sources from all over the country stating Rabbits were a major part of the birds diet, accompanied obviously Photo-Shopped pictures, as for a Fox trying to drag that rabbit away, i doubt it ! No weak legged Leicestershire Fox would be capable of such a feat or inflicting those horrific injuries though some people [usually readers of the VIZ Book of Birds ] will tell you they will some times attack an elderly or weak chicken , these people can often be found dashing round the dales trying to kill weak legged rabbits with large amounts of gobbed out Bullshit

 

 

i saw a buzzard today...it was eating worms at the side of the road.

 

I tried to offer you some advice from my own knowledge and experience...I've kept birds of prey in the past..My mate tried for 2 seasons to enter a very large female buzzard at rabbits and failed miserably...even male goshawks sometime struggle with the size to weight ratio etc etc..basically Buzzards are not up to the job..its not an impossibility...but most likely an improbability.

 

Buzzards will always take advantage of a free easy meal,like a rabbit in a snare in the middle of a field or out in the open.. I could go on to offer you more advice on how to avoid these thefts and damages to your hard earned bunnies.

 

You obviously would rather resort to deflating my character with snide insults..

 

Come off it Vincent they were not snide insults , it was more like the gentle mocking what people who believe the earth is flat would get , grow a thicker skin mate , as for Buzzards , they do hunt and kill rabbits its there on the net , i just asked DO BUZZARDS KILL RABBITS and pages of the stuff came up documenting it . As for the buzzards , they can have as many of my rabbits as they can eat , i am not bothered and i like to see them and rest assured your skin may have been pricked but not deep enough to deflate your character .

[Guest vin]

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/nPoK2l7WBNc

I have had a look on the net and that was the first thing that came up , there was also numerous lies from various sources from all over the country stating Rabbits were a major part of the birds diet, accompanied obviously Photo-Shopped pictures, as for a Fox trying to drag that rabbit away, i doubt it ! No weak legged Leicestershire Fox would be capable of such a feat or inflicting those horrific injuries though some people [usually readers of the VIZ Book of Birds ] will tell you they will some times attack an elderly or weak chicken , these people can often be found dashing round the dales trying to kill weak legged rabbits with large amounts of gobbed out Bullshit

 

 

i saw a buzzard today...it was eating worms at the side of the road.

 

I tried to offer you some advice from my own knowledge and experience...I've kept birds of prey in the past..My mate tried for 2 seasons to enter a very large female buzzard at rabbits and failed miserably...even male goshawks sometime struggle with the size to weight ratio etc etc..basically Buzzards are not up to the job..its not an impossibility...but most likely an improbability.

 

Buzzards will always take advantage of a free easy meal,like a rabbit in a snare in the middle of a field or out in the open.. I could go on to offer you more advice on how to avoid these thefts and damages to your hard earned bunnies.

 

You obviously would rather resort to deflating my character with snide insults..

 

Come off it Vincent they were not snide insults , it was more like the gentle mocking what people who believe the earth is flat would get , grow a thicker skin mate , as for Buzzards , they do hunt and kill rabbits its there on the net , i just asked DO BUZZARDS KILL RABBITS and pages of the stuff came up documenting it . As for the buzzards , they can have as many of my rabbits as they can eat , i am not bothered and i like to see them and rest assured your skin may have been pricked but not deep enough to deflate your character .

 

 

no offence taken matey. . . Just trying to help out a little.

 

Young 1st year before moult Goshawks can look very similar to a buzzard in certain ways and I'm sure that many times people think they may have seen a buzzard it might most likely have been a Gos...there's plenty of them about but you just don't see them like you do the buzzards.they hunt in a totally different manner,rabbit is on the menu along with most other things.They are formidable foe to fur and feather.

[The one 8,530]

Most things are going to take a free meal from a rabbit in a peg snare out in the open the best results i ever had was in fence snares as the the rabbits usually hanged themselves in the sheep wire pretty quickly ?.or they sat tight in the cover on the other side of the wire and all the corvids where wary about going for a feed

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

I would stand by the fact that buzzards ain't rabbit killers .I had a female years ago and was the laziest bird I ever had .Buzzards feet are tiny and any bop is only as good as its feet .The red tail same size as our buzzard has feet 3 times the size and will take rabbit with ease .Common buzzards are keen in their first year when the food from parents dries up but soon learn adult rabbits are too much .Just an opinion based on study .

[EDDIE B 3,168]

I would stand by the fact that buzzards ain't rabbit killers .I had a female years ago and was the laziest bird I ever had .Buzzards feet are tiny and any bop is only as good as its feet .The red tail same size as our buzzard has feet 3 times the size and will take rabbit with ease .Common buzzards are keen in their first year when the food from parents dries up but soon learn adult rabbits are too much .Just an opinion based on study .

That would mean the above video is in fact a fake so. God damn good fake if it is. Not only did the bird hunt a rabbit, it's little feet actually carried it off on the wing. Fair enough, your bird was lazy, and maybe they make poor hunting birds, but it ain't no competition.

 

By the way, no one has explained how you'd hunt with a Buzzard. Still waiting for the answer.

Edited March 11, 2017 by EDDIE B

[micky 3,325]

Years ago i put a picture of a rabbit in a snare and asked the question ; what has done this ? the back legs had been completely stripped of meat and i had never seen any thing like it , there was a lot of replies saying , fox , cat , ferret , otter , mink plus the usual idiot comments , then just as the thread was about dead a chap came on and said it looked to him that it had been done by an immature Buzzard , this mad e perfect sense , Time of the year, state of the rabbit , and location , over the years i have seen this damage a few times and have actually seen Buzzards standing by , stood on a fence post/ hedge on once even plucking the leg of a trapped rabbit that a fox had pulled from the hole on top of this a member off of here once posted a picture of a Buzzard approaching a live snared rabbit though the bird took flight as he filmed. I myself have no doubt that a Buzzard will catch and kill an adult rabbit without to much difficulty and i know a gamekeeper who has saw it happen twice ,

Just as a matter of interest i was one on what could only described a driven cat shoot , whilst we were waiting a large Gull dropped on a adult rabbit and overcame it [mixi???] .

[micky 3,325]

 

This is the picture of what i thought was a fox had pulled it from the hole and the buzzard took over , on second thoughts the Buzzard could have ran it in then pulled it out , we will never know but i can see it happening . That location is a small open Oak wood where Buzzards nest and within a few yards of the very first suspected attack .

[The one 8,530]

you never know whos about at night and most times it would surprise you , only way to truely find out is now days you can stick a trail cam up ?.