Back at the caravan hide on Sunday morning I baited the stump with  Rabbit again and began to wait.  I have mentioned on numerous occasions about the cautious and intelligent behaviour of birds of prey be it Peregrines or Buzzards.  As a prime example, I  sat for only a short while with my cameras pointing at the prey on a stump when suddenly a Buzzard, probably the one that  I photographed yesterday, came and landed near to the bait.  Even though it was close and perching beautifully for a frame filling shot I couldn't move the camera to point at it because I knew with certainty that this would spook it.  So I waited and remained still, feeling certain that it would just glide over to the bait just a few feet away.  The very cautious buzzard surveyed the scene, probably saw the cameras protruding through the cam netting in the caravans window and then decided that there was something odd about all this and off it went!  Very frustrating but not entirely unexpected. It didn't return during the morning but I went back just before dusk to find that the rabbit was just like a glove puppet, completely eaten apart from a head and skin!  Obviously during the afternoon the bird or birds had been in to feed. I am looking forward to tomorrow, I am quite sure there will be some good photo opportunities.

Here's another shot from yesterday.