Supersonic Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Never seen this before... A buzzard doing it's thing circling and gliding, and 3 crows giving it some right stick, attacking it and allsorts?!?!?! About 8pm over my village. Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweedledee Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 crows being corvids don`t like any other type of predator on their patch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libs Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 I saw a crow having a good go at a kestrel last saturday. Fairly brave I guess.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeinVA Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Never seen this before... A buzzard doing it's thing circling and gliding, and 3 crows giving it some right stick, attacking it and allsorts?!?!?! About 8pm over my village. Nige Competing over a dead critter perhaps Maybe the bad economy has affected the **** eaters too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie mac Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 seen them do the same thing a couple of months ago when i was out fishing there was 5or6 of them chasing after a buzzard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miroku4399 Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Where i go shooting in abergavenny there are a lot of buzzards and they do get mobbed by the crows i was wondering if they were protecting their young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Buzzards are rock hard. My bro lives in Spain and had a nutter of a black part feral cat. He lost the cat to a buzzard. Must have been a bloody brave buzzard to mess with "Elvis" (RIP) - see ?.... he even had a badass name too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Often see birds of prey being mobbed by crows and rooks. Seen a pair of gosshawks with maybe 25 really angry crows after it - it looked like how I imagine the battle of Britain being played out - a very interesting dog fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersonic Posted June 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Buzzards are rock hard. My bro lives in Spain and had a nutter of a black part feral cat. He lost the cat to a buzzard. Must have been a bloody brave buzzard to mess with "Elvis" (RIP) - see ?.... he even had a badass name too.... The buzzard was unperturbed. You could almost hear it saying "**** off chav birds" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 good to see the buzzard up turn and reach out with the talons, crows dont get that close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 See it all the time, very common site especially this time of year with territorial corvids with nests. When they get too close it's not uncommon to see the buzzard 'barrel roll' and flash the talons reminding the crow what it can do. LV, I guess it may be a different species of buzzard in Spain that had your brother's cat? Our common buzzard won't bother with anything larger than a young rabbit unless dead. FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
utectok Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 I got a falcon kite to decoy crows in combined with a distressed crow call it is supposed to be great fro crow shooting havnt tried it yet as my permission is all out of crows at the mo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1966 Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 a couple of times i have seen crows mobbing a fox that was out during daylight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 crows being corvids don`t like any other type of predator on their patch They don`t like to see me on their patch either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignoel Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 farm i shoot on has a healthy lot of buzzards and the crows are always giveing them stick .funny how the buzzards know when we are shooting they are not frightend by us shooting and come in close even perch in same hedge row i think they have learned that the shot is not for them and not worried about it .a beautiful bird . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 LV, I guess it may be a different species of buzzard in Spain that had your brother's cat? Our common buzzard won't bother with anything larger than a young rabbit unless dead. These things cast a massive shadow as they fly over, they are massive and due to the heat, probably hungry ! Local gossip is that the local horse sanctuary dont burn any dead ones, they leave them out for the buzzards (it is Spain after all) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 These things cast a massive shadow as they fly over, they are massive and due to the heat, probably hungry ! Local gossip is that the local horse sanctuary dont burn any dead ones, they leave them out for the buzzards (it is Spain after all) They have all sorts of Vultures and Eagles in Spain, it's a bit of a raptor watchers paradise. Probably one of them, the Eagles are massive and they'd take a cat, as well as goats, dogs, deer etc . They have Golden Eagles, Imperial Eagles and all sorts of slightly smaller ones Vultures would just eat dead stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beretta Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 was up at scone pallace game fair a few years back. early morning watching 2 crows mobbing a buzzard. the buzzard suddenly turned upside down and grabbed a crow and hellicoptered down 100ft before going behind the tree line 70yds away, was a good 10 min before it reapeared so presume it stuffed the crow. must have taken as much stick off the crow as it could handle and thought 'stuuf this; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vole Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 I saw a programme on Eagle Owls getting established in the UK. There was footage of their diet and a pic of one of their European nest sites and bits of buzzard were littered around it. Great birds but well down the food chain with Eagle Owls about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 I see crows mobbing Buzzards every day. Crows even mob the Ravens and I've seen a Raven drive a Buzzard off a dead rabbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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