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6/03/2008

Buzzard

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tea break ...
we watch a buzzard shit
from the telephone pole




He sat there for a while on the only pole amongst the rice paddies, then lifted his tail feathers, took a deep breath (so to say) and then squeezed a huge white load out, more than a meter behind himself ... where it then made its way toward the earth ...


Since this spring, we see him more often, trying to compete with the local tombi, the black milan.



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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous03 June, 2008

    LOL Gabi -
    this is an interesting thing to do during a tea break!
    M.

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  2. Anonymous03 June, 2008

    Gabi, this is enjoyable and funny:-) Thanks for posting it.
    P.

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  3. Anonymous21 July, 2008

    Opening some 'old' mail, and chanced upon this one today.
    That must have been a sight to see! And what a large package it must have been!Don't know if I should wish that I had been there to see it.

    Today, rain (what else is new) and so no doves or pigeons in sight, let alone buzzards. There is/was a buzzard in the Veluwe some months ago, bothering cyclists whom it perceived as threats to its nest. That doesn't mean that 'buzzard' is a spring kigo here, though.

    summer rain
    the buzzard's eggs
    long gone


    Ella

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