Wednesday 24 July 2013

More Buzzard Activity



I filmed this earlier today and it is likely to be quite interesting even for non bird lovers.

The action starts around 23 seconds in when you will see a large buzzard eating and at the same time you will hear a squeaking sound from a smaller bird. The squeaks are coming from one of the buzzards from last years batch and that means this bird is about fourteen months old and still a bit of a chick by buzzard standards.

This is a particularly remarkable young buzzard because it (not sure of it's a he or she) is not afraid to fight for its rights when it comes to food. The large buzzard often harries and tries to intimidate it by swooping down and making loud buzzard calls in an effort to scare it away, but the young buzzard who so far seems to be incapable of making a proper and very distinctive buzzard call in response just stands its ground or beats a tactical retreat only to return with a squeak to challenge the authority of the larger aggressor.

But here's a word of warning for the aggressor: This young chick has form and early this year (see vid below) it did the impossible by pinning down the dominant breeding male and rendering him totally helpless. Bear in mind the young buzzard at that time was only a few months old.

I think the star of these videos is undoubtedly a future dominant buzzard and definitely one I will be keeping a close eye on.

21 comments:

Sardine said...

The Routemasters now on BBC2. Totally amazing.

343 bus route to hell said...

London is reverting to the law if the jungle. It is astonishing.

Abnormal, the new normal said...

Cameron's had the big name homosexuals to a party at number 10 and said he wants to 'export' gay marriage around the world. He's also worried about 'homophobic' bullying in schools.
It's only a few weeks since he talked about 'gay schoolboys in love'.
God help Britain if it's led by such as this.

Blood and Soil said...

Purification of the land is necessary.

Anonymous said...

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Anonymous said...

Anon @ 22:59

I know benefits are good in this country but do they stretch to that?

Anonymous said...

They can bill me.

Anonymous said...

We could always ask Russia to do it, I imagine they are itching to.

better a butcher than a traitor said...

Russia has just banned teaching homosexuality in schools.
God bless Comrade Putin.

Anonymous said...

'God' ?

Burke said...

Okay. This is an emotional moment for all of us. I know that. But let's not make snap judgments, please. This is clearly an important species we're dealing with, and I don't think you or I or anybody has the right to arbitrarily exterminate them.

Anonymous said...

I don't know what you're referring to but all exterminations and indeed all such actions should be based on reason or system not personal whim.

Anonymous said...

Look, I'm not blind to what's going on; but I cannot authorise that kind of action. I'm sorry.

Chumbawamba - Homophobia said...

Up behind the bus stop in the toilets off the street
There are traces of a killing on the floor beneath your feet
Mixed in with the piss and beer are bloodstains on the floor
From the boy who got his head kicked in a night or two before.

Homophobia-the worst disease
You can’t love who you want to love in times like these
Homophobia-the worst disease
You can’t love who you want to love in times like these

In the pubs, clubs and burger bars, breeding pens for pigs,
Alcohol, testosterone and ignorance and fists
Packs of hunting animals roam across the town
They find an easy victim and they punch him to the ground.

Homophobia-the worst disease
You can’t love who you want to love in times like these
Homophobia-the worst disease
You can’t love who you want to love in times like these

The siren of the ambulance, the deadpan of the cops,
Chalk to mark the outline where the boy dropped
Beware the holy trinity: church and state and law
For every death the virus gets more deadly than before.

Homophobia-the worst disease
You can’t love who you want to love in times like these
Homophobia-the worst disease
You can’t love who you want to love in times like these

Anonymous said...

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Well I'm really back to basics right beside a bar
Choke the double trouble big one to the joker with card
Good call
What's the crack what's the damage done today
From the commons to the common a banana skin away
Knock it back knock it out
Chuck a nightmare dart
Quiet
Compere on the mic turns turning to the court
Putting beef vol-au-vents across the union jack
Bolinger and bitter says the colonies are back

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You think you're god's gift
You're a liar
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire

You think you're god's gift
You're a liar
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire

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Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit

Up yer ronson
Take a tab
With a flash of zippo light
Catch the hip parade passing the polaroids right
Check the manic little rebel with a bottle in his hand
A rhyming manifesto and a butty from his mam
Local lad made bad with cowboy charm
Claims he doesn't really mean every screw-'em-all barb
Pass the mic
Karaoke with the yesteryear stars
Time to weep into your beer til the fireworks start

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Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit
Do something about it
Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit

Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit
Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit
Do something about it
Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit

You think you're god's gift
You're a liar
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire

You think you're god's gift
You're a liar
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire

Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit
Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit
Do something about it
Can't hear you 'cos your mouth's full of shit

Anonymous said...

'Homophobia' was invented to demonise dissenters, i.e if you believe that homosexuality is abnormal you are suffering from an irrational fear (phobia).
If homosexuality is deemed 'normal' what is next? If it's simply (as they would have us believe) about consent then having consensual sex with your grandparents would be 'normal' too.
The attempted normalisation of the abnormal is an ongoing step by step process to warp and destroy normal values and standards.

Reimer said...

Chumbawumba. The last time I heard of them pre-split they were performing to the genteel well-heeled Left-leaning-Ostrich audiences of Buxton. Quite appropriate. "I mean, the UAF crowds are great, very lively, but they don't pay as promptly as we'd like".

R

Reimer said...

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

An appealing idea. How small an area could a tactical device take out?

Die-versity New From France said...

Enrichment galore

Anonymous said...

With a blast radius of 30 kilometers; equal to about 40 megatons.

Curmudgeon said...

Twitchers might like to know about this?

http://musingsofcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/tameside-taliban-now-have-common-pigeon.html