Shropshire racing worm eaten by Buzzard?

In between the showers and bloomin cold winds I ventured out for a look see around the Telford area, Did the Roddington back road and had the Corn Bunting, but nowhere in the same numbers as Jason reported, they must have moved on a bit. Then in the the fresh growing veggie stuff was a nice Common Buzzard doing a passable Max Wall impersonation, chasing after juicy worms, here is the sequence of events of one such hunt.

Generally stand and look around for movement.

Take a couple of flaps in close.

And drop like a stone before the unsuspecting Worm could perform evading manoeuvres!

"Bugger! forgot to adjust for wind!" or is that a racing worm??

Quickly run to catch up with the prey, it's escaping.

Gobble up nice big fat juicy wriggle Shropshire racing worm!And smile for the Camera!! or at least my best "the bird that got the worm face."

So a short blog for the day but had an interesting time getting this record of file, I know it's no Grey Phalarope! but hey its Shropshire and we do have the best worms in the UK!!

Thanks for looking

oh! by the way if you are trying to leave comments? when you click the comment thingy it throws you back to the top of the blog,, just scroll down to the comment box,,, it is there. It's a strange blog thing,,, like a woman asking what you want for tea? when you reply,, she tells you the lamb is already in the oven,,,,Should have known eh!!!

Cheers

Paul