The blond bird arrives next to the rabbit carcass.

Regular readers of my blog will know that I posted this morning "live from the Buzzard hide".  I had to be really patient today and it was well in to my 5th hour of waiting before…. there it was, at last!  Having learned a lesson yesterday and on other occasions, as soon as I realised that there was a bird with me  I froze.  After such a long wait It is a big temptation to panic and try and get some pictures immediately but the best course of action is to wait for the right moment and then  train the camera on the bird.  Wait till the bird lowers it's head to feed and then move the camera and not before!  Thankfully the bird settled and lowered it's head to feed and my caution paid off.  I watched it as it fed on small pieces of meat but mostly on intestines which wasn't particularly pleasant but very interesting.  After 10 minutes or so another buzzard started to call above which dieffinitely made the feeding bird uncomfortable.  I was hoping that this second bird would come down and then who knows what would happen. "Blondie" flew to the fence opposite and the other bird continued to call from somewhere very close by.  The original bird nervously glanced continually up to the sky and eventually it seemed to grasp the opportunity to escape in to the woods.

It checked that everything was a safe and then moved  down to the carcass before starting to feed

Surprisingly it preferred to eat the intestines rather than meat.

It was quite a messy affair.

It was showing really well as it delicately fed on small pieces of meat.

I had also placed a fresh rabbit which it decided to investigate but because this carcass was not opened, it didn't feed on it.