Posted by Paul Gibbs on January 19, 2009 at 6:35 AM
I saw the pictures in a work colleague’s mail. I've never seen a buzzard hunt in that manner. It was almost an osprey like strike. Nice grab shots though!
Posted by John Robinson on January 19, 2009 at 6:51 AM
I saw the shots on one of the forums I think.
The Sun did a job on twitchers I gather !
Cheers
JohnR
Paul is a local bobby from here in Cornwall, also part of cwbps and this website http://www.cornwall-birding.co.uk/ , When I was up in Warwickshire the Buzzards were seen catching our local Little Owls on several occasions, Buzzards are more than capable of catching birds they must just chose the easy life of eating worms, this happened after an unusual cold snap for these parts which must have made him choose a tasty Birdie.
Cheers
Brian
Posted by eric weight on January 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Are phalaropes particularly soft targets, only there was a shot on here a while ago of somebody photographing one from about two feet with a compact and a couple of years back I'm sure one was nobbled by a pike before all of his audience managed to tick him off their lists. Perhaps they are too trusting or slow. I once had a buzzard hit a plastic pigeon decoy lofted in a tree but other than that I can't ever remember seeing one strike anything.
Remarkable shots and I will be surprised and disappointed if the photographer hasn't earned a nice cheque from his agency for these shots. Well -deserved for being on the ball.
Discussion
4 repliesFor those that may have missed this story at the end of last week.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2135194.ece
Anybody know the photographer??
Regards
Rob
The Sun did a job on twitchers I gather !
Cheers
JohnR
Paul is a local bobby from here in Cornwall, also part of cwbps and this website http://www.cornwall-birding.co.uk/ , When I was up in Warwickshire the Buzzards were seen catching our local Little Owls on several occasions, Buzzards are more than capable of catching birds they must just chose the easy life of eating worms, this happened after an unusual cold snap for these parts which must have made him choose a tasty Birdie.
Cheers
Brian
Remarkable shots and I will be surprised and disappointed if the photographer hasn't earned a nice cheque from his agency for these shots. Well -deserved for being on the ball.