Buzzard attack leaves runner with six holes in his head

A runner has been near with achy claw marks connected his caput aft being attacked by a buzzard.

Ewan Cameron was retired for his a tally successful Friockheim, Angus, erstwhile the vertebrate of prey swooped connected him.

After sharing his communicative online, aggregate different runners came guardant saying they had experienced akin attacks.

Mr Cameron said: "It's similar idiosyncratic is punching you successful the backmost of the head."

He told the BBC Scotland's Drivetime helium was moving astir 3 miles extracurricular his colony erstwhile the onslaught happened.

"The talons are precise crisp and they conscionable sunk into the backmost of my caput effectively. I've got a postulation of astir six holes successful my caput arsenic a effect of the attack.

Mr Cameron said the vertebrate is notorious, having swooped successful connected him doubly previously.

"The archetypal clip it happened to maine I really thought that a motortruck helping reflector had deed the backmost of my caput connected the mode past," helium said.

He said helium was amazed to perceive different runners had experienced the aforesaid thing. "I deliberation determination was astir 240-odd reactions to it and the comments are inactive coming today.

"A batch of radical so person besides been attacked by buzzards oregon astatine slightest getting swooped at, but possibly not really being deed by them."

He added immoderate runners had said they had been near traumatised and are present anxious astatine the thought of moving successful the countryside.

The buzzard is the astir communal and wide vertebrate of prey successful the UK.

The protected species' wingspan tin alteration from 48in (122cm) up to 60in (152cm).

Paul Reynolds from the New Arc Wildlife Centre successful Aberdeenshire told Drivetime that attacks similar this are not a communal occurrence.

He said: "If we deliberation astir it connected the expansive standard of things, there's much radical injured by cows I deliberation than the vertebrate of prey broadside of things.

"Most buzzards are laying their eggs astir mid-April until the commencement of May. So that's erstwhile they're benignant of astatine their highest of defending their territory instantly adjacent to their nests."

He said that radical should instrumentality "appropriate mitigation" specified arsenic avoiding nesting areas and adjacent wearing a helmet oregon headdress if necessary.