If you are a regular to my blog then you will know that I am currently trying to get photographs of the buzzards around my caravan hide. I am sure you will be as interested as I am but it's getting frustrating for me. This morning, I was quite certain that the Buzzards would come in for the Rabbit carcass but after 2 hours waiting, I drew a blank. I came home for lunch and then watched both football and then Rugby on the TV with both of my favourite teams playing (Derby County and Exeter Chiefs). After the games, I thought it would be a good idea to go back and see if the there had been any action at the hide yet. Well, my luck is well and truly out at the moment! When I came away this lunchtime I literally nailed the carcass on to the tall stump, high off the ground because I thought if the crows came to pick it over they may pull it off and on to the ground. A fox would surely then come and take it and I wouldn't know if the Buzzards had come As soon as I arrived and as I climbed out of my car, almost immediately I saw a Buzzard (just like last Wednesday). I walked up to the hide and then I could hardly believe it. The Rabbit had been almost completely eaten. There were no innards left, no meat on the ribs and backbone and mysteriously, the head had been taken off somewhere. I can only image that more than one bird had been in to feed on it and this in the short period while I had been away. Well, I need to be patient because it will just be a matter of time before I am there, ready and waiting with the camera when the bird (or birds) come in to feed. The only thing is, now I need more rabbits! I need to keep my eyes open for any road kill.
This morning, as I waited for the hoped-for Buzzard, I heard one but I knew immediately that it wasn't in actual fact a Buzzard at all, it was the resident male Jay who imitates a Buzzard call beautifully. This was good to hear because it proved a couple of things to me. Firstly, this is the same male Jay that was at my site last year and obviously it proves that this bird is a resident all year round.
He's a clever bird, he knows that there are peanuts on the log where he has found them before. He came to check and then found them hidden in the cracks of the log. As an individual, he is a good friend and I was pleased to see him.
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