Where are the buzzards?

[stripee]

They are usually wheeling around in the sky, but over the last couple of weeks I have been looking for them and not seen any.....is it possible there are fewer because there are fewer rabbits this spring due to myxi? Or are they busy sitting on nests right now.
So I wondered if this is a normal seasonal thing, a neighbour said the same that there didn't seem to be any buzzards, normally the crows are chasing them off.
I don't know if anything untoward could have happened to the local population. I am still waiting for peregrine falcon(thread a couple of weeks ago re dead peregrine)to have it's tissues tested at the WA lab for poisoning, the post mortem showed a healthy bird.
So don't want to jump to conclusions yet

[Blackdog]

We have plenty around in my part of the world. I drive between Bristol and Yeovil most days and see two or three every journey, sometimes more.

[Capt_Lightning]

Plenty here in Aberdeenshire. I regularly see them flying over the fields round my house, or frequently sitting on fence posts. They don't seem bothered by cars driving past so I get to see quite a few at close range.

[stripee]

Ha! Have just seen one being mobbed by crows! But first one for several weeks, maybe the sunshine brought it out. Usually there are a lot about, as you both say.

[Pete Collins]

I certainly saw several in Oxfordshire last week. I see them often when I'm out walking, and I can't say I've noticed them being scarcer than usual.

[The Woodman]

Displaying like crazy here in south lakes for the last couple of weeks. Enjoying the thermals on what has been the best day of spring yet today.
No shortage here.

[big bill]

Hi Stripee I am the same at the moment up until last week there used to be at least 3 on fence posts everyday on the road between Nairn and Inverness but they seem to have diappeared altogether,so unusual as they have been there almost every day since before christmas?

[deer boy]

We have lots out & about i saw one sat on a post at the weekend drove past a couple of times & he just stayed there looking at me each time.Great bird

[Kayleigh]

There are some round here too. Being mobbed today by crows.

[shirl]

Some here in the Derbys Dales, see them quite often first thing in the morning during the dog walk. Fairly sure I heard one down by the canal about lunch time.

Shirl