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9.56 the buzzard came with a twig with catkins which were roundish. it brough flowers home. but i'm afraid they can't be seen in this picture. but they can be seen in the video! - and i missed the bittern. thank you Fleur for the video.




now it's sitting on the backbranch and calling irregularly. ... and gone.

at 12.21 the buzzard came. this time it called well before landing. and it has brought lunch with it: a bif vole (or mouse)!




it's eating it on the rim of the nest.

i don't think it ate much anything after all. it climbed to the back branch rather quickly and is sitting there. - a songthrush began to sing quite close.


after sitting on the branch for a while it took off at 12.33.

I did not know he was there, until he was called

Good afternoon!

Buzzard did loud voice but nobody didn't come here and it ate this mouse by itself...

and the buzzard is back.
he/she has a white stripe in the tail fathers, at the end

at 12.56 meowing began far and 2 minutes later a dark buzzard came to the nest to eat the vole/mouse. it also looked bigger than the one who brought the mouse.






now it's sitting on the back branch... what?... who is calling out there??
... in the end of this long version...

now i really hope it's not an eagle who was there....

here's the "director's cut" of the above video. this one starts at 12.58 with the arrival of the buzzard and ends when buzzards finishes eating, before the loud bird calls.

maybe this is the female ?
which are often larger

my thoughts, too. - didn't Urmas write on the front page news that the bigger one who's the female was a bit darker than the male?

you're right Ame, Urmas writes about
http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/12987

the buzzard came at 14.57 again, but also this time it didn't stay very long and did almost nothing in the nest, just dug the bottom and pressed it a little with its breast.

at 15.19 the buzzard came and "made bed" for some time in the nest before climbing to the back branch. there it sits and preens now.


at 15.30 the other began calling from a distance... and it came to the nest, too.


but it didn't stay long. the other arranged the twigs in the nest bolw a little more, but then it climbed again back to the back branch.

well that was interesting! both buzzards were busy at the nest.


the more grey one was at one point digging in the bottom of the nest upside down with the tail up in the air. the browner one was on the right branch and talking to the other....


then it walked out of the picture along the branch.

the grey one climbed up from the nest bowl but returned down. then at about 16.07 someone called from the forest like an eagle..?


the grey buzzard left. almost at the same time a jay shrieked and the brown called back (from outside the picture). it sounded angry. then it took off, too, and at the same time a jay came to look at the nest.


soon another jay came, too.


they were looking for eggs!

But all in vain!

yes, so far!

well i don't think jays can steal buzzard's eggs as long as Mummy Buzzard is at home.

16.53 one buzzard came but left soon. maybe the grey one?
they are active this afternoon! i wonder: did the jays know that it is time to come and see if there are egges...

this is a busy afternoon! the buzzard came back at 17.19.


it sat on the back branch and preened a while and then it came back in the nest.
... and back to the back branch and from there to the right branch. then it walked out of the picture. it looks like a goblin when it walks along the branch.



it's still on the branch there, i can hear it call...

at 17.33 it began to complain at someone who was under the branch. i didn't see anyone..? then after a while it took off.