A Pine Marten Tries Sneaking up On A Common Buzzard and Her Egg
A Buzzard is sitting on her nest when she hears something, she perks up looks around and attacks something, a Pine Marten, which is pretty hard to see because it quickly gets out of her way. She hops around the nest several times snapping her wings fiercely.
I was especially impressed with her defense of her egg because last year a Pine Marten ate an eagle chick from one of the nests I was watching.
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Buzzards (Buteo buteo) taking over an abandoned White Tailed Eagle’s Nest
Ravens Pull a Buzzard’s Tail
The ravens are pretty much the same size as the buzzard so the buzzards rarely get much dinner before the tail pulling drives them away. The eagles last a lot longer, they shake their feathers and the ravens back off.
Buzzards seem quite similar to the North American Red-tailed Hawk
direct link to the Eagle Feeding Ground Cam http://pontu.eenet.ee/player/nova.html
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The New Eagle Feeding Cam at Looduskalender
Marion V Photographer :)
Long-legged buzzard vs Magpie, Shumen, Bulgaria, photo by Radoslav Tsvetkov, Wild Wonders of Europe photo competition :)
