Hobbies

Here’s a few hobbies: birdwatching, photography and beautiful falcons.

Having taken the plunge on a new camera and lens, I took it out on a walk on Friday to see what it could do.  It can definitely focus!  The Hobby was a very brief appearance.

On Saturday we went on a twitch (something of a novelty for us this year) to Kent, to see the Eleonora’s Falcon that has taken up residence.  It was something of a challenge: a fast-moving falcon, among the local Hobbies, and it was also elusive.  A detour to South Foreland to try and see the Sardinian Warbler was wasted time (no two-lifer day for us), but a return to Worth gave us nice views of it perched in its evening roost.
(The pictures are better than this: my gallery plugin seems to be making a mess of resizing them.)

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Broad-bodied Chaser
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Adonis Blue
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Mother Shipton
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Large Skipper
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Kestrel
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Hobby
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Corn Bunting
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Blackbird
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Eleonora's Falcon
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They like stooping
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One of many Hobbies
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Whitethroat
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Later in the evening, Eleonora has gone to roost