I've enjoyed a good couple of days watching the local buzzards flying out over the fields, being mobbed by rooks, skimming over sheep, and – this evening – mating high in the tree tops. This is a small selection of shots. Most were taken from a long distance and some shots are heavily cropped.
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
debplatt
20 Apr 2010Wow!
Words
20 Apr 2010My thought exactly. I was tracking the second buzzard as it flew over to the tree and just carried on shooting. The complete sequence of around 36 shots covers 16 seconds.
Ukwildlife
20 Apr 2010Nice stuff words 🙂
Words
20 Apr 2010Thanks Neil!
Cynthia23
21 Apr 2010WOW! Is Right! Great shots!! :up:
gdare
21 Apr 2010😮
What about their privacy? 😛 😆
Nice shots :up:
RobinL
21 Apr 2010Great sequence 🙂
SittingFox
21 Apr 2010Excellent! To see one buzzard in the southeast would have seemed remarkable a few years ago, and to get sequences like this absolutely unheard of!
Words
21 Apr 2010Darko, if they want privacy they shouldn't go to the top of the highest tree in the vicinity with a view for miles!
Words
21 Apr 2010Adele, we're very nearly tripping over them at the moment. There are two locations I visit, both about a 15 minute walk at lunchtime, where there are small colonies of them.
Words
21 Apr 2010Cynthia, thanks!
Words
21 Apr 2010Robin, thanks!
Words
21 Apr 2010Erwin, thanks :cheers:
cakkleberrylane
21 Apr 2010In spite of their name, they are really beautiful birds. Ours are black and nasty looking. Very well captured! That hot needs to win a prize!
Words
22 Apr 2010Lois, they are wonderful in the air. We seem to have so many locally that they are causing quite a stir.
Wulpen
19 Oct 2012Excellent great lovely :up: