Hobby

Just a single juvenile Hobby at Folwmere Road this evening at dusk.

Hobbys

Two juvenile Hobbys tonight in the rain, on their usual mound along Fowlmere Road.

Minsmere

A free day. And despite feeling awful due to a flu-like cold, and despite oversleeping because of the flu-like cold, and despite unpromising weather conditions for migrants, I decided to hit the coast. Hard work. Virtually no migrants: Three Chiffchaffs heard; some Swallows heard; a Wheatear and a Whinchat; and finally the only winter migrants being three Brent Geese heading south over the sea.

Still good fun trying and included a Purple Sandpiper, and a Great White Egret (seen twice in flight), but the weather was more suitable for butterflies like this Small Copper and Common Blue…

 

Also took a few half decent recordishy-type-shots…

  

…and a couple of better ones…

 

…and came ever so close to taking a decent picture of a Bearded Tit, but it unfortunately put its head behind some reeds at the last moment…

This Grass Snake was nice to see too…

  

Hobby

Just a single juvenile Hobby this evening. When I arrived a Buzzard was sitting on it’s usual spot. However, the Hobby flew from the roosting tree near the path, and mobbed the Buzzard, who moved on. The Hobby then went and sat in it’s other roosting spot on the far side of the field.

Hobbys

Two juvenile Hobbys in their usual spot. Earlier in the day I’d made an attempt at a Gannet at Wilstone that had hung around for a couple of hours. I should have left earlier, as the bird departed when I was about ten minutes away.

Hobbys

The two juvenile Hobbys back at Fowlmere Road having gone missing yesterday. Folwmere first thing was typically quiet, though three parties of Swallows were seen flying due south.

Hobbys

Two juvenile Hobbys again at Fowlmere Road at dusk. Usual bits ‘n’ bobs in the Botanic Gardens at lunchtime.

Cambridge Botanic Gardens
22 September 2014 13:13 - 13:37
Sunny 18C 2N
Blackbird, Blue Tit, Coot, Goldcrest, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Moorhen, Robin, Woodpigeon, Migrant Hawker