The sightings of Common Buzzard keep on coming!
My last sighting was on 23rd September 2025 when I saw FOUR Common Buzzards soaring together over the woodland beyond the houses opposite my flat and almost certainly over my St. Nicholas Church local patch site.
This morning at 11.40 a.m., I saw just a single soaring bird in the same area.
Sightings of Common Buzzard have been much lower in the last few years after a peak of activity during 2022 but there has been a significant and welcome increase in sightings recently following a scarcity during the first half of 2025.
Whilst I have no firm evidence, it seems quite likely that a pair of Common Buzzards bred locally this year with some of these birds that I am now seeing being juveniles.
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: 13 dates involving 21 birds
Love nature .... act now
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