Buzzards

[northernhord]

cats dont mew, cats meow innit?

 

[madzone]

so, let me see if I've understood, you people are trying to write down what a noise like a cat sounds like? The internet is a truly wonderful thing and people find ever more powerful uses for it day by day

Does anyone see buzzards east of the Pennines or the Chilterns?

Thing is buzzards don't even sound like cats

 

[madzone]

Nah, madzone is trying to deny that buzzards go mew like a cat. But thats because s/he is wrong. And from Cornwall.

Where we have shitloads of buzzards

 

[vipper]

No, no you're absolutely right. I'll believe all these written descriptions above my own ears. That's what I'll do

The rspb have a handy birdsong playing tool on their website. Top left hand corner of this page for the buzzard.

I think it sounds halfway between me-eow and pe-eow

 

[selamlar]

Double post

 

[selamlar]

Thing is buzzards don't even sound like cats

Oh yes they do.

The call is a plaintive peea-ay, similar to a cat's meow.

 

[madzone]

The rspb have a handy birdsong playing tool on their website. Top left hand corner of this page for the buzzard.

I think it sounds halfway between me-eow and pe-eow

If anyone has a cat that sounds like that they need to take it to the vet

 

[vipper]

If anyone has a cat that sounds like that they need to take it to the vet

My cat made a noise like that once when I slammed the backdoor on his foot accidentally.

 

[northernhord]

This is funny as fuck a polite morning argument about the sounds that Buzzards make

 

[madzone]

Oh yes they do.

Again - a written description - have a listen to vippers sound file and see if that sounds like any cat you've ever heard. You remind me of a girl at school whose watch was 5 minutes fast - she was adamant that everyone elses was 5 minutes slow. I have buzzrds on the smallholding - I hear them every day. No amount of text will get the buzzards making a different sound so why don't you just give it a rest?

 

[madzone]

This is funny as fuck a polite morning argument about the sounds that Buzzards make

I might no be able to maintain polite for very much longer

 

[selamlar]

http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/priors/buteo.shtml

The call of the common buzzard is a clear, loud, unmistakeable mew.

Includes sound file for your appreciation.

 

[madzone]

Well, that's 2 sound files now and they still aren't a-mewin'

If that really sounds like a mew to you maybe you need to go to the doc.

 

[Pieface]

I think for the sake of dignity the mew/kee fight should be dropped - remember at school when you'd find out how the french would write the onomatopoeic (sp!?) sounds animals make and they were realms away from our idea of "woof" and "oink"??? It's looking like that

Anyway - according to my sister who is big on these things, a healthy bird of prey population signifies a healthy biosphere - since they need plenty of mammals who in turn need plenty insects and seeds and stuff - so Cornwall is doing good, as is Hereford and the bit of Wales I was in

Bad nature news this morning - moth populations have halved apparently and Attenborough is launching a mothwatch or something....so look out for the furry bears folks

I like the idea of a nature news thread......I think I'm going to start one with the moth story

 

[vipper]

http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/priors/buteo.shtml





Includes sound file for your appreciation.

Is that a herring gull?

 

[madzone]

I think for the sake of dignity the mew/kee fight should be dropped -

I'll gladly drop it.




















As soon as they admit they're wrong

 

[selamlar]

Is that a herring gull?

Nah, they go

Actually, I'm not sure how to describe that one. Kind of honk?

 

[madzone]

Is that a herring gull?

That's what I thought

 

[selamlar]

As soon as they admit they're wrong

You started it.

 

[madzone]

Nah, they go

Actually, I'm not sure how to describe that one. Kind of honk?

Oh fuck me, honking gulls and mewing buzzards

 

[vipper]

Nah, they go

Actually, I'm not sure how to describe that one. Kind of honk?

Kind of like that really.

Or they say "give me your fucking sandwiches or I'll shit on your head, tourist scum".

 

[Pieface]

I find that geese give a good honk

 

[madzone]

Kind of like that really.

Or they say "give me your fucking sandwiches or I'll shit on your head, tourist scum".

They don't ask anymore - they just take them. We've got hawks patrolling the bay at the moment to try to control the gulls.

 

[vipper]

I find that geese give a good honk

Notorious for it, I believe. The little honkers.

 

[zoltan]

Aint Buzzards the most numerous Bird Of Prey in the UK nowadays ? Im sure I read this somewhere

 

[pembrokestephen]

Buzzards are great. They have a brilliant piercing cry.

And they are beautiful. And they are on the up, I believe.

They'd have to be. They're not known for their burrowing capabilities.

 

[Jessiedog]

I've kept and trained a few Common Buzzards in my time.

Great birds, but not great "hunters" (at least not for the human pot).

Once Harris Hawks became more easily available, they took over from Buzzards as the favoured "first bird" when taking up hawking.



Woof

 

[Pieface]

What do they go after Jessiedog? I kind of assumed at the size they are it would be rabbits and that....

 

[Jessiedog]

Buzzards will catch things up to the size of a small rabbit, but prefer smaller prey. Typically mammals, rather than birds. And they are quite happy to scavenge.

A good Harris Hawk will take rabbit with ease, partridge, pheasant, and pretty much anything else that is flushed withing a reasonable distance, even a young hare occasionally.

All good stuff.



Woof

 

[Pieface]

Christ - how do they kill them?? Something like a hare must put up a bit of a fight.