This really is becoming a habit now! The sightings of Common Buzzard keep on coming!
This afternoon at 12:15 p.m., I saw THREE Common Buzzards soaring well beyond the houses opposite my flat and almost certainly over my St. Nicholas Church local patch site.
I have seen at least one Common Buzzard on each of my last four visits to my nearby St. Nicholas Church local patch site and this sighting from my flat follows three previous sightings this month and three in July 2025.
After the last sighting just yesterday, I said that it seems reasonable to assume that there is at least one bird resident in the local area rather than all of these sightings being birds just passing through. Having seen three birds together today, I am now speculating as to whether there has been successful breeding of Common Buzzard in the local area with this group representing an adult pair and a juvenile or an adult and two juveniles.
There has been a significant and welcome increase in sightings recently following a scarcity during the first half of the year.
Sightings of Common Buzzard have been much lower in the last few years after a peak of activity during 2022. However, 2025 is already an improvement on 2024.
Summary of Common Buzzard records during the last 5 years:
2021: 11 dates involving 13 birds
2022: 26 dates involving 38 birds
2023: 8 dates involving 8 birds
2024: 3 dates involving 3 birds
2025: 10 dates involving 15 birds
Love nature .... act now
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