Oriental Honey Buzzard

A good thing about early morning walks is the bird life you can see around campus.  There’s a surprising amount, considering the amount of early-morning gunfire from the adjacent military firing range, which you’d think would scare them off.  This morning I saw a nice Oriental (crested) Honey Buzzard overhead – very big and impressive.  This one was headed towards the woods and the lovely dawn chorus of machine-gun fire, but on other occasions I’ve been walking around the athletic track when one took off from a nearby tree and swooped around, flying low, over the heads of the dawn exercisers.

They’re called honey buzzards because they like to raid beehives and eat the larvae.

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