I’ll come to the video in a moment, but first some photos of one of the three buzzards that flew over the garden this morning. We do see them occasionally up here, but it’s a long time since I’ve seen three together (though only two feature in these photos, and I failed to get a group shot).
This is the first buzzard (which was closely followed by a second one). It flew across the rear of the garden, so I only had a few moments to get a photo.
The third of the buzzards circled overhead for a while. These are two of the better photos. Both are hefty crops.
Now to the video. It’s a series of clips taken over the past two nights via the garden trail camera. The sequences include two clips of a badger, plus the three most regular fox visitors. Pretty you know (she’s by far the smaller of the group). There’s a large healthy male (Nicked Ear) who has been around for some time. The third fox has shown up up several times recently. He appears to have a mangey brush, though the rest of him doesn’t look too bad for now.
Finally, a photo of Pretty taken a couple of hours ago.
Camera note: all buzzard photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The fox was photographed with the EF 100mm f/2.8L macro IS USM lens. Video via the Bushnell Trophy HD.
dW
23 Feb 2014That male makes Pretty look very small.
Lovely shots of the buzzards!
Words
23 Feb 2014dW, Pretty is a tiny little thing, but quite feisty with the other foxes. It was nice to have buzzards overhead. Today brought a sparrowhawk and a peregrine.
And btw, you now have 5 minutes to edit comments. It should be long enough to pick up obvious typos etc.
dW
24 Feb 2014Thanks.