Full Moon Committee
by Darren Fisher
Title
Full Moon Committee
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
An image I captured of a group of Buzzards, which is actually called a committee, volt, and or venue which refer to vultures resting in trees. This is a composite piece I done where I added one of my cloudy full moon images. I feel it really added an eerie feeling to this piece. The lighting, the clouds and the buzzards are worked very well for my vision. I also used digital effects to give the image the look of a painting. Imagine this hanging on a wall in your home, it is certainly an eye catching piece and can start a conversation.
The common buzzard 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.[citation needed]
Buzzards do not normally form flocks, but several may be seen together on migration or in good habitat. The Victorian writer on Dartmoor, William Crossing, noted he had on occasions seen flocks of 15 or more at some places.[citation needed] Though a rare occurrence, as many as 20 buzzards can be spotted in one field area, approximately 30 metres (98 ft) apart, so cannot be classed as a flock in the general sense, consisting of birds without a mate or territory. They are fiercely territorial, and, though rare, fights do break out if one strays onto another pair's territory, but dominant displays of aggression will normally see off the interloper. Pairs mate for life. To attract a mate (or impress his existing mate) the male performs a ritual aerial display before the beginning of spring. This spectacular display is known as 'the roller coaster'. He will rise high up in the sky, to turn and plummet downward, in a spiral, twisting and turning as he comes down. He then rises immediately upward to repeat the exercise.
The call is a plaintive pe
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December 19th, 2016
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