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18-07-2009, 11:59 AM
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| | | Buzzard attacks man
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cornwall | Jogger injured in buzzard attack
I've seen several stories like this recently.
It's important to keep it in perspective, this is pretty rare, but just keep in mind that you need to be careful out there in the countryside. Especially in breeding season. |
18-07-2009, 12:10 PM
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I'd have loved to have been there with a camera  |
18-07-2009, 01:46 PM
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Shame really that Buzzards can't differentiate between Joggers and those idiots with shotguns who blast away at them. If the guys with the 12 bores walked away looking like this chap maybe they'd think twice! |
18-07-2009, 02:08 PM
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Its no surprise that a beautiful bird like that is warning off a nasty predator like a Human. The fact that they cant distinguish a jogger from a hunter/killer is unfortunate 
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24-07-2009, 06:22 PM
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This sounds more like Owl behaviour?
Tawny Owl? |
24-07-2009, 10:27 PM
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May be a bird that's escaped from captivity?
Either that or the jogger's fashion taste offended it!
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24-07-2009, 10:55 PM
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Hope it didn't hurt it's talons
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24-07-2009, 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by ron1863  Hope it didn't hurt it's talons |
Well at least from what I heard they weren't pressing charges. I think that was the joggers .... 
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25-07-2009, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Maverick47 This sounds more like Owl behaviour? Tawny Owl? | My thoughts too - a case of mistaken identity perhaps 
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25-07-2009, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by JeffH My thoughts too - a case of mistaken identity perhaps | In which case it could well have been any one of a large number of escapes-from-captivity which if misidentified as a wild bird could lead to all sorts of persecution.  What next? Buzzard tried to take little Woofles? Grabbed at Baby??? Farmer loses dozens of sheep to giant Eagle???? 
'Course, if jogger's hair resembled a running rabbit....
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