{"id":1679,"date":"2010-07-23T00:07:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1679"},"modified":"2013-11-10T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T18:16:27","slug":"mobbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mobbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This series of shots was taken at lunchtime today. A buzzard is being mobbed by a small group of crows which are, no doubt, defending their fledglings. It&#39;s always slightly odd to see how smaller birds attack the raptors, particularly when the raptor is as large as a buzzard. But crows are aggressive in their own right and more than capable of looking after themselves, even against a much larger foe.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time it is more a game of chase than anything serious, but both species are prepared to tangle.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/buzzard_crow_2207104549.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Buzzard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/buzzard_crow_2207104511.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Buzzard being &#39;escorted&#39; by two crows<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/buzzard_crow_2207104620.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Now four crows are seeing it off<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/buzzard_crow_2207104604.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">The buzzard &#39;tumbles&#39; in the air to show its talons<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/buzzard_crow_2207104607_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Close encounter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/buzzard_crow_2207104607.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Crop of the above shot<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The buzzard was persistent. It regards this area as its territory and these skirmishes continued irregularly over about half an hour before the buzzard gave up and flew into the distance.<\/p>\n<p>One other creature for tonight, spotted on my way back. It&#39;s not often you get to see a crocodile in the middle of the Sussex Downs, but I did today \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/crocodile_2207104696.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990],"tags":[179,643,44],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-buzzard","tag-crocodile","tag-crow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}