THE BUZZARD 25 



March, and beginning of April, no matter 

 how bad the weather, all the birds are 

 busy with their nests. And a very busy 

 time this is for the Buzzards, for a nest 

 of such dimensions needs a lot of building, 

 and not only do they repair the nest 

 which is to be used, but the other one 

 as well. I have known a pair of Buzzards 

 to spend nearly the whole of March in 

 building a nest on a ledge which had not 

 been occupied for several years, and they 

 went so far as to completely line it, and 

 it was one of the best Buzzard's nests that 

 I have ever seen ; and then for no reason 

 that I could discover the birds left it, 

 and went right across the valley and 

 made another nest over there, in which 

 the eggs were laid. 



Those birds which build their nests 

 on the crags of some of the higher 

 mountains, have to fly in some cases 

 four or five miles to a spot where they 

 can collect sticks, but my experience has 



