Show us ya birds !

[Stubby]

10 hours ago, 5thelement said:

I don’t think you would mistake a White tailed Eagle for a Buzzard, they are huge in comparison.
I used to see them a lot when I travelled home on the boat from Skye to North Uist. I have never seen a WTE in England, I have seen Osprey in Scotland and in Cumbria, and Buzzards don’t hunt fish.

There is no way I would mistake a white tailed eagle for a buzzard . We have buzzards and kites around hear like confetti . There are white tailed eagles not far from me on the I.O.W. However I think I have only seen an osprey  on the telly .

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New kid in town (taken a couple of weeks ago)

[Doug Tait]

Pulled off a job this morning after discovering this little fella.

 

 

[Billhook]

On 05/08/2021 at 07:49, Stubby said:

There is no way I would mistake a white tailed eagle for a buzzard . We have buzzards and kites around hear like confetti . There are white tailed eagles not far from me on the I.O.W. However I think I have only seen an osprey  on the telly .

We had an Osprey visit our little lake for about seven years in succession.  The lake is full of little silver Rudd and I think he treated it a bit like a motorway services on his cruise round from Rutland Water. 
They are about the same size as a Buzzard but have narrower wider wings which are cranked when gliding.  They are far better fliers than the clumsy Buzzards.  We have about three pairs of Buzzards here and I have never seen them catch anything on the move, just carrion.

They did take offence at the presence of the Osprey and I have an analogue video of two of them swooping down at the Osprey.  The Osprey hardly seemed to move its wings but put a good distance between the diving buzzard which ended up in an untidy mess before recovering to have another go

After the third attack the Osprey had clearly had enough and rolled over onto its back in mid flight and showed the Buzzard its talons!  That seemed to work!

I slept one night down at the log cabin and managed to take a short clip of it picking up a Silver Rudd with one talon but again it is on analogue so I must have it digitalised to put up on here.

The clip is not that impressive as the camera cannot decide what to focus on

The diving buzzards is a better clip.

[Ratman]

[Doug Tait]

Met a young raven today, the mascot of a jousting/stunt horse riding team doing an excellent display at Sir Walter Scott's birthday party. The 'wench' whose arm he was sitting on said he's 6month old and has a lot of growing to do, quite intimidating.

 

 

[nepia]

That beak is gruesome!

[sime42]

You can see why they've got a sinister reputation. Probably unfounded though I guess..

[Stubby]

10 hours ago, sime42 said:

You can see why they've got a sinister reputation. Probably unfounded though I guess..

Very loyal , intelligent and affectionate birds to their " owners "!  Look up Loki the raven on youtube .

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