I awake early and the Hobby is still with us. I feed it more chicken and then clear out the old Rabbit hutch which is much more roomy and I use to house rescued birds. I feed it chicken every few hours (best cut into thin strips and then held above the bird, similar to how it is fed by the parents I guess). It seems fit and well, and decide the best course of action is to attempt to find the nest and put it back. So with Tom and Dave Salmons we go back to the tree where it was found and two adult birds fly out. Bingo! I look around for a nest, but can’t see one, though the top of the tree is dense so it presumably high and can’t be seen (Hobby’s often take over old Crow’s nests).
Myself and Tom go back to get the bird and give it a good feed whilst Dave Salmons collects his father’s tractor to lift us as high as possible into the tree. It’s not as high as we would have liked, but get it about half way up. We move away in the hope that the parents who are not too far away and watching events will return. Unfortunately despite waiting for about two hours they don’t return but we decide it’s probably best to leave it in the tree (it’s reasonably well hidden) and return in the morning to see what the situation is.
