Magnificent and beautiful thank you for filming and sharing my favourite bird. Love to watch these but sadly too many people wish to harm them where I live due to game shooting!!
Hi could I ask how long it took you to get the buzzards coming down to eat the bait? I’m at 2 weeks and they are on perching on trees but not coming down
Hi as I don’t know your habitat and landscaping it depends I have a hide that’s been established now for over a year so my buzzards are very confident and it’s out in the hills with no people to disturb them it took a few weeks for them to get really confident with the setup I have another platform in a woodland area and use a pop up hide these buzzards are more wary as they don’t get used to the pop up hide so if you can use a permanent hide I put up the platform I leave some roadkill on it but be sure to tie it down buzzards are strong birds it will fly off with most roadkill and it’s best if you open it up so the heart and liver shows I leave for a week and I return just to see if it’s been down trail camera helps once your sure you are getting them down then it’s a matter of sitting in your hide ? and waiting it’s important to let them start to feed that’s when they are most relaxed once established they will keep coming as long as they have food on the platform try and be in your hide before they arrive first light or they can be wary hope this helps they will come in am sure rabbit and pheasant are good to use and last for a few days. Regards Andy
@@buzzingaboutbuzzards7566 hi, thanks very much for the info. Do you find that they are wary of man made objects? Like a feeding station made out of wood? Or do they prefer the kill being on the ground? Something is making them not come down to this. They perch in the tree but don’t come down and it’s a fresh rabbit. It hasn’t been cut open but has been there for a week and a half now but they are yet to come down and eat. I’ve covered the station in moss to hide the wood but it’s around 60cm x 60cm in length and width. Maybe it needs to be bigger? Just totally perplexed as to why there are so wary. This is a forest that is very quiet. Maybe they are skeptical as they see me putting out the food? Totally bewildered about it
@@BunkMayne morning if they see you they know your around and will be very wary and probably only feed when it’s late same as the ones I have in the woodland pop up hide that’s why it’s important to setup before first light also any movement in your hide will put them off I would think the feeding station should have worked but might be worth trying to put up a landing post close to it they will then perch on that and be close to the food this may help ? I would if you can open up the road kill I got a tip from Alan McFadden from Scottish wildlife hides on this and it does make a difference I will send you a couple of links to where I get my food raw chicken carcass meat mine love it and where you can buy pheasants wood pidgin ect your hide might be to close too I use the RF 100-500 and am at the 500 have a look at Simon Eardley video on buzzards he give some good advice and shows you his setup his feeding station is a combination of posts and logs on the ground 👍
@@buzzingaboutbuzzards7566 hi thanks for the info. Yeah I haven’t even put the hide out at all only the station with the rabbit and the trail cam so i can monitor and still they only perch in nearby trees without coming down, there was a raven that landed nearby yesterday but didn’t come onto the station to feed. Maybe I do need to cut it open in the middle? And put the log perch in too. But strange how they still aren’t coming down
@BunkMayne I use two different companies The wild meat company for my road kill pheasant ,rabbits ,wood pidgin and squirrel and the Nuturing by Nature for my pots of liver and the chicken carcass buzzards up in my hide up north love these 👍 good luck and when you get them down please send a picture
Magnificent and beautiful thank you for filming and sharing my favourite bird. Love to watch these but sadly too many people wish to harm them where I live due to game shooting!!
Mine too thanks
Hi could I ask how long it took you to get the buzzards coming down to eat the bait? I’m at 2 weeks and they are on perching on trees but not coming down
Hi as I don’t know your habitat and landscaping it depends I have a hide that’s been established now for over a year so my buzzards are very confident and it’s out in the hills with no people to disturb them it took a few weeks for them to get really confident with the setup I have another platform in a woodland area and use a pop up hide these buzzards are more wary as they don’t get used to the pop up hide so if you can use a permanent hide I put up the platform I leave some roadkill on it but be sure to tie it down buzzards are strong birds it will fly off with most roadkill and it’s best if you open it up so the heart and liver shows I leave for a week and I return just to see if it’s been down trail camera helps once your sure you are getting them down then it’s a matter of sitting in your hide ? and waiting it’s important to let them start to feed that’s when they are most relaxed once established they will keep coming as long as they have food on the platform try and be in your hide before they arrive first light or they can be wary hope this helps they will come in am sure rabbit and pheasant are good to use and last for a few days.
Regards
Andy
@@buzzingaboutbuzzards7566 hi, thanks very much for the info. Do you find that they are wary of man made objects? Like a feeding station made out of wood? Or do they prefer the kill being on the ground? Something is making them not come down to this. They perch in the tree but don’t come down and it’s a fresh rabbit. It hasn’t been cut open but has been there for a week and a half now but they are yet to come down and eat. I’ve covered the station in moss to hide the wood but it’s around 60cm x 60cm in length and width. Maybe it needs to be bigger? Just totally perplexed as to why there are so wary. This is a forest that is very quiet. Maybe they are skeptical as they see me putting out the food? Totally bewildered about it
@@BunkMayne morning if they see you they know your around and will be very wary and probably only feed when it’s late same as the ones I have in the woodland pop up hide that’s why it’s important to setup before first light also any movement in your hide will put them off I would think the feeding station should have worked but might be worth trying to put up a landing post close to it they will then perch on that and be close to the food this may help ? I would if you can open up the road kill I got a tip from Alan McFadden from Scottish wildlife hides on this and it does make a difference I will send you a couple of links to where I get my food raw chicken carcass meat mine love it and where you can buy pheasants wood pidgin ect your hide might be to close too I use the RF 100-500 and am at the 500 have a look at Simon Eardley video on buzzards he give some good advice and shows you his setup his feeding station is a combination of posts and logs on the ground 👍
@@buzzingaboutbuzzards7566 hi thanks for the info. Yeah I haven’t even put the hide out at all only the station with the rabbit and the trail cam so i can monitor and still they only perch in nearby trees without coming down, there was a raven that landed nearby yesterday but didn’t come onto the station to feed.
Maybe I do need to cut it open in the middle? And put the log perch in too. But strange how they still aren’t coming down
@BunkMayne I use two different companies The wild meat company for my road kill pheasant ,rabbits ,wood pidgin and squirrel and the Nuturing by Nature for my pots of liver and the chicken carcass buzzards up in my hide up north love these 👍 good luck and when you get them down please send a picture