Owls and Buzzards
It's been a while since my last blog, but that has been due, to how busy I have been over the past couple of months. Most of my photography recently, has been following our 'Little Owl' family, who reside not far from my home. In addition, I have been developing a plan to entice Buzzards to a location on a friends land. The owls have not disappointed, and have been very active since April, producing one offspring and fighting off a family of Blackbirds and Magpies, who have all been constantly 'mobbing' them. In fact, the Magpies in particular, have been in a large group and very aggressive. Fortunately, our owls were not to be intimidated and constantly fought off the marauding mob. Buzzards have always fascinated me and I have photographed them a lot from distance and from my hide. However, I wanted to get closer to them, to achieve specific shots of them coming in to land. Having found a suitable location within one Buzzards territory, it was now time to entice