Who lives in a house like this?
There’s one of the biggest nests I’ve seen up this tree in the centre of the wood.
It must be the nest of a Common Buzzard. They build several nests and only use one of them. I wonder if I can search for the rest of their nests and find them? Naturally I have to do it without disturbing them. That means spending a day sitting camouflaged at every site I find. There’s also the problem that people seem to think that they own land and that other people can’t even enter it. What a quaint, outdated concept that is.
Maybe all I’ll have at the end of the breeding season is photographs of empty nests and a few police warnings.
More Buzzards
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Buzzard chick I've cycled out to The Wood again. I'm collecting my trail camera (more of which, later) and want to check… read more
The Buzzard’s call I've finally found the active Buzzard's nest deep in The Wood. It's not this one: https://www.thehallofeinar.com/2021/05/who-lives-in-a-house-like-this/ They've built another smaller… read more
Buzzard over Dartmoor I'm hidden in the bushes waiting for Cuckoos when I see a Buzzard heading straight towards me up the hill.… read more
Buzzard drama on Dartmoor I thought that last week's Buzzard drama over my local industrial estate was it for me. After all, how much… read more
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