Recently I have been going out with a bag hide and found a spot where I can also sit in my car with a new Bean bag that takes a gimbal head. This unobtrusive method allows me to get close. They are now getting very common not always the case, and saw 5 or 6 in one place.. Not that common as Buzzards do not normally form flocks, but several may be seen together on migration or in good habitat. It breeds in woodlands, usually on the fringes, but favours hunting over open land. It eats mainly small mammals, and will come to carrion. A great opportunist, it adapts well to a varied diet of pheasant, rabbit, other small mammals to medium mammals, snakes and lizards, and can often be seen walking over recently ploughed fields looking for worms and insects. The birds have incredible strength and are therefore able to pick up food of all weights.