While walking on the south coast this morning I witnesses a very vocal battle royal going on between a Raven and a Buzzard and they were not pulling any punches.
The raven was soon joined by its mate and this large pair of birds were giving the retreating Buzzard quite a bad time to the extent that it had to turn on the ravens with fully stretched talons at which time the Ravens back off enough for the Buzzard to eventually make an exit.
And the reason for all of the hullabaloo was soon divulged by the female raven which on descending from the frey flew straight to its nest site on a cliff face.
Within the nest were a trio of fine looking fledglings two of which were already exercising and stretching their wings.
The over-shadowed nest site was a challenge and a bit like " Photographing a black cat in a coal shed " so contrast on the chic photography is almost non existent but it was good to see that they all looked OK and their feisty parents look well capable of keeping it that way
I noticed before leaving this site today that the buzzard and its mate are building their own nest on the cliffs within a hundred metres of the ravens so fear that today's fracas will not be the last one between these territorial birds so I just might be reporting on their behaviour again in the near future
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