Tag Archives: Buzzard

A Passing Buzzard

Actually there were two buzzards over the garden late this morning. The clear skies were deep blue, and the flocks of herring gulls and pigeons that had been overhead all morning moved away as the pair came in from the eastern sky. The buzzards were scouting lazily as they came across, but there’s nothing here of much interest to them. They stayed on an even flight path, heading for nearby downland.

The firstthree photos are buzzard number one. The second one was lagging a minute or so behind.

Buzzard

Buzzard

Buzzard

Buzzard

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

Posted in Bird of Prey

A Grey Wet Day

It’s really done little else but rain today. It was raining when I took this photo of the local cormorant:

Cormorant

And it was raining when I snapped these ducks in the road which was partly flooded.

Ducks at the edge of a flooded road

There was the briefest break in the weather when I got this shot of a buzzard sweeping low over the fields.

Buzzard

And after a brief but major downpour it all eased off again to get this shot taken through the strangely lit gloom.

Gulls on Falmer Pond

Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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Buzzard, Sunset and Badger Vid

We spent today working on the garden. The big autumn clear-up. Our activity was probably the reason the foxes stayed away (though I now have a much better view of the rear of the garden, which may help me get come night photos), but I was rewarded with a fly-over by a pair of buzzards.

Common buzzard

Common buzzard

The blue skies turned red as the sun began to set, dropping slowly behind the main stand Brighton Racecourse.

Sunset directly over the grandstand at Brighton racecourse

The video mentioned in the title is from last night. A pair of badgers came by and helped themselves to some peanuts.

Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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