BUZZARDS

[radar]

Hate it when cultivating eg cover crop and young leveretts break cover, only to be snatched up by buzzards. Tried to save one today but bird kept flying away. It's screams will disturb my sleep tonight!

 

[David.]

Between buzzards, crows and badgers, it is surprising that any ground nesting birds and leverets make it. B@$¥ards they are.

 

[spin cycle]

Hate it when cultivating eg cover crop and young leveretts break cover, only to be snatched up by buzzards. Tried to save one today but bird kept flying away. It's screams will disturb my sleep tonight!

yeah i hate the b'stards......all you can do is cut middle of field first so they draw to hedges

 

[Barleycorn]

Between buzzards, crows and badgers, it is surprising that any ground nesting birds and leverets make it. B@$¥ards they are.

Used to have hundreds of peewits here before the 'nature experts' took over the asylum.

 

[collywol]

9 buzzards and 53 kites following the cultivator in the spring. in a 13 acre bit, nothing stands a chance, but people love them, some actually feed em.

 

[Jon 3085]

Had 10 buzzards following the plough last week eating the worms , they kept all the sea gulls off so at least the tractor was cleaner

 

[thorpe]

buzzards pregrines and sparrow hawks 20 years ago what treat to see them. today isee them every day, but idont see many of my favorite the kesteral because the sparrow hawks have had them , but iguess we will get the blame for that as well.

 

[ConanPB]

Think the barn owls have suffered also. Found one recently dead on a tree stump with definite raptor inflicted wounds.
Buzzard population out of control here , can't stand the things

 

[Devil's advocate]

Wish something would eat my leverets & bunny rabbits.

Totally over run with them.

 

[eagleye]

5 buzzards over field yesterday, saw one lift a rat. Havent seen any lift hares or rabbits

 

[David.]

Saw one lift a grass snake, must have been 5ft long a couple of years ago.

 

[Christoph1945]

As their population grows, I wonder if they will move in with the townies and city folk and start taking Tiddles and Fido?

 

[Christoph1945]

Used to have hundreds of peewits here before the 'nature experts' took over the asylum.

Strange, you should write that; I haven't seen a lapwing for years but come to think of it, neither have I seen a crane-fly!

 

[Surgery]

9 buzzards and 53 kites following the cultivator in the spring. in a 13 acre bit, nothing stands a chance, but people love them, some actually feed em.

Think yourself lucky , well over 150 kites follow around here and probably 20 buzzards , unfortunately not an uncommon site in oxfordshire.

 

[db9go]

Think yourself lucky , well over 150 kites follow around here and probably 20 buzzards , unfortunately not an uncommon site in oxfordshire.

Same here

 

[radar]

Strange, you should write that; I haven't seen a lapwing for years but come to think of it, neither have I seen a crane-fly!

Walked across my small paddock yesterday and it was heaving with crane flies (daddy longlegs)?

 

[jondear]

Between buzzards, crows and badgers, it is surprising that any ground nesting birds and leverets make it. B@$¥ards they are.

Around here they don't haven't seen a hare for years!

 

[Boysground]

I think the buzzard population has declined here as the number of kites has increased.

we do get stone curlews but the little ones don’t stand a chance

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[MrNoo]

Had one take a leveret two days ago, always makes me feel awful as love seeing them about. They are starting to get out of control here, Kites have arrived circa 3-4 years ago, don't mind them, they dont seem to kill like the Buzzards do.

 

[britt]

Saw one catch a leveret yesterday, but it couldn't carry it away. Jumped out of the tractor to rescue it, but its back legs wouldn't work. It must have punctured the leverets spine with its talons.