Welcome return of a persecuted raptor
by Mark Cocker from on (#1747J)
Claxton, Norfolk Such was the persecution of buzzards by pheasant-killing folk that until 1994 I'd never seen one in Norfolk
My guess is that on most days in the last 5,000 years, buzzards have been commonplace over our village. Yet such was the relatively recent persecution of them by pheasant-killing folk that until 1994 I'd never seen one at all in Norfolk. And it was only this century that I found them breeding locally. Now I spot them routinely from the office, and 10 during a walk on the marsh is nothing exceptional. However I prefer to look upon the common buzzard as a rightful returnee rather than a recently arrived stranger.
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