This post is just by way of an update and hopefully you will return regularly to find out what happens.  Buzzards are now the most common bird of prey in Devon. For at least the last 6 weeks, probably longer, I have been baiting the area in front of the wood hide with a Rabbit carcass and staked down.  I am trying to attract  the local Buzzard who has a territory here, to come down and feed while I am in the hide and waiting with my camera.  Mostly the carcass has disappeared overnight, probably taken by the local foxes but the last few days the carcass has remained.  Something has happened to the foxes…. that's sad if they have been shot or something similar, I really hope not but it's weird that they have stopped coming to the food so suddenly. However, their absence has meant that the carcass has been there for longer and this evening I had some success at last.  As I walked from the car up along  the edge of the wood, a  Buzzard lifted off from the grass in front of the hide and then when I froze it landed on the nearby fence as if  it was reluctant to leave the area.  It had second thoughts and when I moved it flew away!  When I arrived at the scene the Rabbit had been carried to a nearby log and all that remained was bones and sinew, every morsel of flesh had gone and the bones had been picked clean.  I am absolutely certain that the Buzzard had been feeding on the carcass. I sat in the hide for an hour but it didn't return.  I plan to return first thing in the morning and sit it out to see if it comes back again. You must check back to find out.