I had a great “from the house” tick yesterday with two buzzards low over Loxley Road, clearly visible from the living room window. I have seen distant buzzards overhead before in the Valley, but these were the best views I’ve had on patch, and the first from the house. Good stuff!
Last week I started my part-time uni course again, with a module in mushrooms and toadstools. So expect lots of mycologically-themed posts in the coming weeks…
Posted by Chris Kelly on October 5, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Good stuff! Keep me posted how you get on with the mycology.
Chris
Posted by Liz on October 5, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I saw a Buzzard from my back garden a couple of weeks ago now… According to a local birder, it’s the first time in 9 years since he last saw one over our ‘patch’. We assume it was passing over, because there’s little else it could’ve been looking for – being so central to the city, there’s only really parkland nearby (Norfolk, Meersbrook, around Callow Mount flats and such, Greaves is futher away).
Interesting stuff! Seems to be quite a lot of sightings of Buzzards around Sheffield and Chesterfield recently with two other people in Chesterfield I know having seen them at very close-range.
Posted by kabeer on November 8, 2009 at 3:23 am
see oriental honey buzzard outside my house