The sightings of Common Buzzard keep on coming!
My sightings are usually from mid-morning onwards in sunny weather when the birds take advantage of thermals to enable soaring.
However, my sighting this morning at 7:25 a.m. was very untypical being so early in the morning and in grey and very windy weather. I had an extremely brief view this time of a bird that flew past undoubtedly wind-assisted!
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: 14 dates involving 22 birds
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