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hollydolly said:
This Cob...wanted so see what I was doing taking pictures.. and come to try and shoo me away....



..and when I didn't show fear of him , he put on a superior attitude....:ROFLMAO:

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ThAt would have got my attention 🤯

A friend wasn’t home on a day I stopped to visit. Her goose chased me back to the car.🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️
 
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PeppermintPatty said:
I’m laughing but being chased by a ticked off goose is no laughing matter. Those things can be dangerous.
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oh it’s funny lol lol. It was funny when it happened😂😂

thankfully, I had a Headstart on him because I knew what he was going to do when I saw him come around the corner of the house. He thought he was sneaking up on me, but I knew he was there.

I can’t run very fast anyway, so thankfully, I made it to my car before he could get me😂😂
 
Imogene said:
oh it’s funny lol lol. It was funny when it happened😂😂

thankfully, I had a Headstart on him because I knew what he was going to do when I saw him come around the corner of the house. He thought he was sneaking up on me, but I knew he was there.

I can’t run very fast anyway, so thankfully, I made it to my car before he could get me😂😂
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You had a plan and followed through on it.
Good for you.
 
hollydolly said:
..because we have woodland and farmland we are surrounded by pheasants...everywhere....

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I guess you used a professional camera and lens. I’ve tried taking bird photos with a camera and a long telephoto lens before, but I found the long lens was just too heavy for me 😂 So now I’m just enjoying everyone’s photos here, everyone did a great job.
 
josephine said:
I guess you used a professional camera and lens. I’ve tried taking bird photos with a camera and a long telephoto lens before, but I found the long lens was just too heavy for me 😂 So now I’m just enjoying everyone’s photos here, everyone did a great job.
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I absolutely don't... not at all... it just all depends for me on the light, the time of day.... on how my photos come out. I use my Iphone most of the time... or my simple Fuji finepix...everyone says... '''I have the eye''...
 
hollydolly said:
I thought it was but when I researched it, it said the fan tail means it's a Buzzard... a red kite has a deeply forked tail.....
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Wiki says: Red Kite at Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Wales, a local feeding ground.

"Juveniles have a less deeply forked tail, with a dark subterminal band"

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Common buzzard known as hawks in America. This one is Buteo buteo and the picture is from Scotland.
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The Red Kite is deeply forked compared to other buzzards(hawks) but not as deeply forked as other birds like a scissor tail fly catcher, for instance. Buzzards typically have rounded or square tails.

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againstthegrain said:
Wiki says: Red Kite at Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Wales, a local feeding ground.

"Juveniles have a less deeply forked tail, with a dark subterminal band"

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Common buzzard known as hawks in America. This one is Buteo buteo and the picture is from Scotland.
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The Red Kite is deeply forked compared to other buzzards(hawks) but not as deeply forked as other birds like a scissor tail fly catcher, for instance. Buzzards typically have rounded or square tails.

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I'm not in Wales... I'm in England



From AI
The UK Buzzard and the American Buzzard are not the same
The UK buzzard is a raptor (bird of prey) from the Buteo genus (Buteo buteo), while the American term "buzzard" usually refers to vultures (like the Turkey Vulture), which are carrion eaters, or colloquially to Buteo hawks (like the Red-tailed Hawk).
  • UK Buzzard (Buteo buteo): A medium-sized, broad-winged bird of prey, often called a hawk in the US, common in Europe.
  • American "Buzzard": In the US, this term almost always refers to vultures (New World vultures), which are not closely related to European buzzards.
  • The Confusion: Early American settlers used the term "buzzard" for large, circling, dark-feathered birds they saw in the Americas, which were actually vultures, not the Buteo hawks/buzzards they were familiar with in Europe.
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hollydolly said:
I'm not in Wales... I'm in England



From AI
The UK Buzzard and the American Buzzard are not the same
The UK buzzard is a raptor (bird of prey) from the Buteo genus (Buteo buteo), while the American term "buzzard" usually refers to vultures (like the Turkey Vulture), which are carrion eaters, or colloquially to Buteo hawks (like the Red-tailed Hawk).
  • UK Buzzard (Buteo buteo): A medium-sized, broad-winged bird of prey, often called a hawk in the US, common in Europe.
  • American "Buzzard": In the US, this term almost always refers to vultures (New World vultures), which are not closely related to European buzzards.
  • The Confusion: Early American settlers used the term "buzzard" for large, circling, dark-feathered birds they saw in the Americas, which were actually vultures, not the Buteo hawks/buzzards they were familiar with in Europe.
Summary Table:
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Let's focus on the id'ing the bird you posted. You say the bird you posted is a buzzard, which one is it?
 
I said it's a UK buzzard... I thought it was a Red Kite, but when I checked online the google images showed me that the Red Kite has a Forked tail the buzzard has a Fan tail !
 

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