{"id":24955,"date":"2016-04-29T00:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=24955"},"modified":"2016-04-29T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T23:12:02","slug":"buzzard-and-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/buzzard-and-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzard and Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been gathering more beautiful shots of our local owls and promise that I’ll post some very soon. The owls are my early morning walks. Buzzards are the treat at lunchtime.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t planned on going too far, but a buzzard caught my eye as I left the office and I followed in its general direction to some downland at the top of Moulsecoomb. It’s good buzzard territory. Woodland and open fields. Fine for buzzards, and there are plenty of crows too. They don’t always get on. <\/p>\n

The mobbing is more of a joust than anything serious, but the crows are defensive and no doubt have young to protect. There were several rounds of this and each time the buzzards and crows retreated to separate areas of woodland. <\/p>\n

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Buzzard being mobbed by a crow at Moulsecoomb, Brighton #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buzzard being mobbed by a crow at Moulsecoomb, Brighton #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buzzard being mobbed by a crow at Moulsecoomb, Brighton #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buzzard being mobbed by a crow at Moulsecoomb, Brighton #4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a more conventional shot of the buzzard in flight.<\/p>\n

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Buzzard at Moulsecoomb, Brighton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As for the owls… here’s a taster.<\/p>\n

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Short-eared owl at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been gathering more beautiful shots of our local owls and promise that I’ll post some very soon. The owls are my early morning walks. Buzzards are the treat at lunchtime. I hadn’t planned on going too far, but a buzzard caught my eye as I left the office and I followed in its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1221],"tags":[179,867,850],"class_list":["post-24955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-owl","tag-buzzard","tag-mobbing","tag-short-eared-owl","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955","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=24955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}