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Birds - Hobby Page 2
Image Taken on 21 Aug 2015
at 15:37 Image of day on 23 Oct 2015
The Dragonflies have arrived, and so predictably does the Hobby - a
dragonfly catching specialist.
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Image Taken on 19 Aug 2014
at 13:30 Image of day on 30 Oct 2014
Now the Dragonflies are about, so is the Hobby - a specialist
Dragonfly predator. We love the gentle twist of this unbroken
sequence. With no clouds to accurately space the images they
are undoubtedly much too close.
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Image Taken on 09 Sep 2020
at 15:51 Image of day on 21 Oct 2020
High overhead a Hobby wheels round in search of Dragonflies.
We see this bird a few times each year when Dragonflies are about.
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Image Taken on 19 Aug 2014
at 13:30 Image of day on 30 Oct 2014
A better view of the second image from montage of the hobby in flight.
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Image Taken on 09 Sep 2022
at 12:41 Image of day on 23 Oct 2022
Even a few Dragonflies bring along visits from the Hobby who specialise
in hunting these insects.
We miss most of them of course, but here caught this one flying overhead.
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Image Taken on 04 Jun 2011
at 14:35 Image of day on 18 Jul 2011
Half an hour later this Hobby made a rather high flyover. At the time
we could not see the dragonfly clutched in it's talons.
The abdomen (tail) is sticking out below the tail and the
dragonfly's wing outline can be made out below that.
We were out looking for dragonflies & didn't spot one all day!
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Image Taken on 27 Jul 2012
at 18:03 Image of day on 05 Sep 2012
We had problems identifying this bird of prey seeing flying over
the wheat and dropping into it just as a lorry stopped and
obscured the view. We didn't see it again. One of our email
members suggested a juvenile Hobby & subsequent sightings of a
pair of adults suggests this is right (see 4 Oct 2012). We just
keep an eye open for it going after our dragonflies - a favourite
prey - before it migrates south in a mid-August.
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Image Taken on 02 Sep 2010
at 16:20 Image of day on 22 Oct 2010
A Hobby arrived pursued by a couple of jackdaws for an extended
aerial dogfight tracking round the area. Here the jackdaw was
closing in on the Hobby.
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Image Taken on 02 Sep 2010
at 16:21 Image of day on 22 Oct 2010
Finally the Hobby had enough and got the advantage - they really
were this close. The encounter drifted off to the East and we
lost them in the haze.
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