Just to clarify, honey buzzards won’t take the entire hive, just what they need, and the hive generally survives. It’s nature working as intended, the hives that are best concealed are less likely to be predated on.
In hindsight I shouldn’t have posted this gory stuff here on a forum full of bee lovers. I apologise if I traumatised anyone. I understand that not everyone shares my enthusiasm for honey buzzards.
Hi Stefan, no need to apologize. I’m pleased that you shared this gory stuff. If you hadn’t shared it, I probably would not have learnt about these magnificent creatures.
Speaking for myself, I’m a bee lover, as well as a lover of the natural world, which I’m sure that most other members are.
Thanks Jeff. 
Like you I love beekeeping and the natural world, but the natural world comes first. I am only an accidental beekeeper and have great internal conflict inside me, because from a conservation point of view, bees are a pest here. It often gets me into trouble with irresponsible beekeepers. Bees in the wrong place compete with scarce hollows of endangered local native wildlife that have not evolved with them. They are also efficient pollinators of weeds which spread in natural parks and outgrow the native flora. I am very sensitive to these issues. Conservation is my passion. On the other hand bees are needed to pollinate crops of course, and I do get that.
I agree with what you’re saying Stefan. I also think that feral bees compete with native fauna, & therefore should be contained within managed bee hives.
It is amazing to see this, I had no clue these birds existed. It is all apart of beekeeping in different parts of the world, thank you for sharing.