{"id":89246,"date":"2026-01-17T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=89246"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:39:44","slug":"sharing-time-with-a-buzzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/17\/sharing-time-with-a-buzzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing time with a buzzard"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is just one bird that features in today's photos. It is a buzzard. I remember when they were not that common in East Anglia. They are relatively so now.<\/p>\n

I saw this one as I was approaching the WWT Welney reserve this morning. I was going fairly slowly. That's what you do on Fenland roads if you have any regard for your own safety.\u00a0 They set decided traps for the unwary. I realised that the buzzard was heading for a post, on which it then landed. So I slowed to a stop, about 6 metres (20 feet) from it.<\/p>\n

The buzzard saw us. It seemed unfussed. It was looking for worms on the bank - a favourite food of this bird of prey, and was finding them. It obviously saw us, sitting in the car, as no threat. So we put the hazard warning lights on and sat and watched it. When it moved a couple of fence posts down the bank, we followed it. Again, it was not fussed.<\/p>\n

The pictures were taken on an iPhone, through the car windscreen.<\/p>\n

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What a bird.<\/p>\n

What a moment.<\/p>\n

And yes, the birdwatching that followed was good (whitefronted and taiga bean geese plus 4,000 or more lapping migrating), but not much was going to beat sharing time with a buzzard like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is just one bird that features in today’s photos. It is a buzzard. I remember when they were not that common in East Anglia.
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