Wildlife Photography across the Water: Mini Trip Report - Part 6

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Mini Trip Report - Part 6 - Buzzards

As mentioned in my last part on the 'White' Kite, I said I would bring you some Buzzards.

Buzzards appear at Gigrin in significantly less numbers than either the Kites or the Corvids, and will often wait until the corvid frenzy has eased and they will come in to eat. They get heavily mobbed either by ground running marauding corvids or dive bombing kites. This can be fascinating to watch. Sometimes they sit it out and try to eat, while other times they give up the struggle and move on.

The Common Buzzard buteo buteo has a very wide range of colour variations from very pale through the browns to quite dark. These next two images show the light and brown variations.

Pale Buzzard and incoming Red Kite

A couple of regular brown coloured Buzzards

Coming in for food

About to Land

Optimistuc food take

Butter talons!

I think that is probably about it with images from that trip now. Hope you have enjoyed these posts

Martin

1 comment:

robbieb3 November 2010 at 07:15
Cheers Martin, takes me back to when I first met you guys. Great stuff, thanks for sharing.

Robbie
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David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.