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from Janet Baraclough contains these words:

That sounds more like sparrowhawks. Buzzards are too unwieldy in
flight to catch small birds on the wing or hopping about in hedges
(unlike sparrowhawks who can manouevre at high speed even in copses).
We've always had a lot of buzzards around and they make no noticable
impact on smaller bird numbers at all. IME they mostly catch small
mammals, more or less by crashlanding on them :-)

Hares are all but extinct (or totally, maybe) on the Isle of Lewis and
Harris because of buzzards. And the sheep, of course, though they don't
stoop quite so fas or from such a height as raptors.

They just have the cover burnt for their benefit, so you can't blame them.

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