Buzzards

[Guest jim2123]

have 2 buzzards for aweek watching the birds in the aviary or so I thought raining today heavy they are down in the garden pulling worms to eat never saw this before next door said they have been doing it all week .any seen this before

[lanarkshire lad]

oh aye its well known plus frogs and insects etc.

[greenbar]

better that than your birds,

[ally mac]

lets hope percy is struggling to find a decent meal too !!!!

[Guest bigda]

what year did we start to see buzzard to me this explosion of them seemed to be no more than 6 years ago, so they must be letting them go in there hundreds each year since

[ally mac]

what year did we start to see buzzard to me this explosion of them seemed to be no more than 6 years ago, so they must be letting them go in there hundreds each year since

 

Always been plenty of them up here Danny but they're never a problem for the doos

[Guest bigda]

Always been plenty of them up here Danny but they're never a problem for the doos

 

maybe but i have camped out all over the place inducing oban lochlomand and above but its only in the last 6 years that have seen so many of note. any given day here in coatbridge i can now see 6- 8 pair circle the sky. and if they where about as much as they are now when i was a lad, i would have had them in a shed at least ever year. and all there eggs

Edited November 26, 2014 by bigda

[Guest chad3646]

what year did we start to see buzzard to me this explosion of them seemed to be no more than 6 years ago, so they must be letting them go in there hundreds each year since

 

 

danny the reason you are seeing an explosion of all birds of prey, is because there are hardly any game keepers around and that includes the magpie, crows, foxes, and many more VERMIN

[hawked again]

what year did we start to see buzzard to me this explosion of them seemed to be no more than 6 years ago, so they must be letting them go in there hundreds each year since

 

About 5 years ago the pair of buzzards to the South side of our house disappeared along with their 2 young ones as did the pair to our East. At the same time a pair of goshawks moved into the area. I assumed that a bird protection organisation had taken the buzzards to make space for the released goshawks as happened in the Black Isle to make space for the red kites. Buzzards eat baby red kites.

 

About 6 months later the buzzards returned, had a massive fight in the sky just in front of our house and we were lucky enough to see the pair of goshawks heading South the following day, they have not returned yet.

[Guest chad3646]

i m o, i think the goshawk would sort the buzzard out

[airdrie2]

have found that when buzzards are around our dookits there is no other bop and buzzards dont bother our doos

[hawked again]

i m o, i think the goshawk would sort the buzzard out

 

There was 5 or 6 birds all having a go, so I assume 4 were buzzards and the other 2 the goshawks.

Glad to see the back of them.