Anybody know about Buzzards?

We have had Buzzards living in our little wood ever since and probably before we moved here 16 years ago. They rarely come over the garden and do most of their hunting up over the hills behind us.
This year for the last week or so there has been 1 hell of a lot of calling going on (maybe it's their baby) which I don't remember in previous years. I've seen what looks like a juvenile Buzzard, slightly smaller than an adult riding the thermals over the past week so it may well be that which is causing the racket but don't know why?
I do hope nothing has happened to the parents and it's calling for mum and dad? The noise is quite something, let's put it this way we have about 20 Swallows around atm and them combined is nothing like this dreadful noise.
Hopefully it will stop soon

 

Hi @silu we heard this call from a young Buzzard a couple of years ago whilst staying in Somerset as we were out on an evening walk and there wasn't any cars around to block out the sound.The call sounded quiet pitiful and we could see the young Buzzard sitting in an old dead tree and was calling like this for ages and it sounded quiet distressing as we thought something must have been up with it We came to the conclusion that this youngster had fledged the nest a few days/weeks before and was now having to fend for itself and find its own food and the pitiful cry was it calling to its parents to try and get them to bring it some food as it wasn't being successful in catching its own food and was quiet hungry

This at the time was the first time we had heard the call and we couldn't believe how loud it was.By the next evening when we walked back down the lane the bird had flown off so we have no idea if it gave up calling because its parents had relented and fed it or else they were not coming back so it was a question of find its own food or die of starvation.

We actually heard the same thing this week whilst walking along the old railway/cycle track near where we live and it sounded like it was coming from the wood across the fields.Hearing the distressed call brought the memory back of the young Somerset Buzzard to us.I think that by now young birds of prey are starting to leave the nests and the security of their parents feeding and looking after them and now they are out in the big wide world they are finding it a bit tough especially with the weather being rubbish at the moment and food possibly being hard to find.

Well that is my theory on this subject

 

Thanks @Kandy . At least what we are hearing isn't that unusual and hopefully it's just a teenager throwing their toys out of the pram!

 

What you are hearing is recently fledged young who will still be dependent on their parents for food. They are dependent for some weeks for all their food. They are hungry and need a lot to eat and if there are more than one or two young the parents are under a lot of pressure. Family groups will often stay together for months as the young learn to successfully find their own food. Buzzard youngsters are fledgling all over the place now. There is a family close to me which only left the nest about a week ago, kinda late for around here.

Buzzards have expanded their range hugely in the U.K. in the last 20-30 years moving eastwards from their more established areas in the west.

Young are not necessarily smaller looking than adults as their feather mass is greater, more fluffy. They are lighter but often appear big because of the mass of the feathers.

Nice to have them around.i like watching them.

 

Thanks @Redwing. Looks like I can relax a bit and not fear the worst that Mum and Dad have been hurt/killed. I know some consider Buzzards are a menace but we enjoy seeing ours daily. When the RSPB released Sea Eagles from a farm just down the road from us 1 of them landed on a tree in our little wood. OMG the resident Buzzards went ballistic and dive bombed the Sea Eagle and sent it packing despite the enormous Eagle being about double the size of the Buzzards.
The youngster is yelling again this morning. obviously breakfast is late!

 

Great you have Sea Eagles! Now that makes me envious. I saw them when we went to Mull about five years ago.

I live on a migration route so have a very respectable garden list of 116 bird species.