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into the nest again at 13.37. this could be the grey one. then to the back branch.

it's staying on the back branch, whoever it may be....

some streches from earlier, first the right wing.


... and then the tail and the left wing.

the buzzard left at 13.47. since then there have been buzzard voices calling from the forest....
at 13.52 one landed on the nest. the other is still calling in the forest. this one is making bed... and calls a little...
the sun has come out.

they are busy now when the weather gor better..
one has stayed at the nest and another brought a twig at 14.02. -before the second came the first buzzard took a fresh pine twig to the right-branch and then dropped it! it's undoing what the other is trying to do.

and i've got no idea who is who!

suddenly both were in the nest at 14.22, calling loudly and looking up and around...

then one left and flew around calling in the air. the remaining bird replied from the nest. this went on for quite some time... until the second left, too, at 14.25.


then they called to each other in the air. after a while one landed in the nest and the calling continued.. finally the second left,too, at 14.27

at 14.40 one was again on the back branch but left right away (i missed the arrival as i was uploading videos...)

at about 14.50 they began to meow in the air... finally they came to the nest one by one.








they went on meowing and kaa'ing in the nest for some time... then one left, soon followed by the other.


are they on wedding flights?

one buzzard came in at 15.06.






it stayed rather silently till it left at 15.12.

one came to the nest at 15.23, made a little something, kaa'ed a little, climbed to the back branch, stays there. it's the same pattern most of the times.


was this an elegant landing?


i had a wrong video here first. sorry!

the voice of the other began to come from the sky... it landed at 15.33.


they talked a lot. the latter in the nest arranged twigs, and then they talked more.


finally the one on the branch took off at 15.36. the other followed at 15.37.

btw: the cock at the farm has been out today and has cawed there...

i didn't see nor hear any more buzzard visits at the nest today. there was a lot of birds' singing though...

today's playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2954B624C1597F05

good night!

ame thank you for all the news from the buzzard nest.
I hope the eggs come next.

April 25th
good morning!
it's a beautiful sunny morning with a lot of birdsong as usual. a chiffchaff is singing near now. no buzzards so far.

yes macdoum, i wish they'd lay the eggs and stop fussing around.
i've been thinking that shouldn't they decide yet? how long do they court? - or maybe one of them is too young, like Loupe wrote that the other looks young. then maybe they just "play home", but are unmature to produce eggs.
surely the female must lay eggs when they are ready and can't withold them till it's sunny or Sunday?

btw: i was up for a while in the small hours and had a here. it was still dark but birds were singing already. here's a sample. a songthrush is closest and loudest, there's a snipe baa'ing in the air and another ticking on a pole somewhere. a woodcock passes by and says gnrr - gnrr- gnrr as it flies by, and near the end a bittern "blows in a bottle".

at 8.41 the buzzard came. it's making arrangements... the stick is on the way again.

Please someone. Take that stick away!

it tried several times and hard to push aside the crossing stick but could not get it away.

it took off at 9.01 and returned a minute later with a little dark something?

9.03 left again.

came in at 9.07.


.. and left in less than a minute.

buzzard came in at 9.42 but first it crashed and rustled on the right under the nest. i can't see what it was up to there...


it then flew a large circle in the forest behind the nest and then came in .

finally it called a little and left at 9.47.