At 1120 suddenly, there was the Buzzard in front of me and perched on the stump that I have placed for it, then it very quickly moved on to the carcass and began to eat...... it's now 1113 and it has perched on the nearby fence after demolishing the rabbit in a feed that took nearly one hour. Not only have I got hundreds and hundreds of still photos, some of them amazing but I also took 40 minutes of movie! I can hardly write this comfortably because I am trembling with excitement! You could see how gorged the birds crop looked and I am surprised that it flew off so easily. It was very relaxed once it had fed and then eventually perched on the nearby fence line, gradually moving along the fence. Later another bird put in an appearance, probably the blonde bird from yesterday.
The darker bird arrived on a nearby post placed there for it.
It quickly moved down to the prey which I had opened up for it. It seems that they will wait for other birds, Ravens and Crows etc to open up a carcass first.
I am sure that they will only feed on a carcass when it is "open".
Its been quite hard to get all the bird in the viewfinder with a 500 lens.
It fed on the carcass uninterrupted for 50 minutes.
This is definitely the darker bird and not the one that came to feed yesterday.
When it had finished feeding it flew back up to the original perch and then on to the nearby fence line.
I was lucky to get a shot just as it landed.
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