This is a young buzzard, photographed in the hawthorn trees beside Lambrok Stream. For a couple of weeks he has been hunting in the field on the Church Lane side of the stream, where there are field vole colonies. He roosts in the same oak the barn owls visited last spring.

It would be wonderful if he found a mate and nested in or around the park this year; fingers crossed.

Header photograph by Suzanne Humphries

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