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Hobby - Falco subbuteo
The Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo), or just simply hobby, is a small slim falcon. It belongs to a rather close-knit group of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Hypotriorchis.
About the size of a kestrel with long pointed wings, reminiscent of a giant swift. It has a dashing flight and will chase large insects and small birds like swallows and martins. Prey is often caught in its talons and transferred to its beak in flight. Can accelerate rapidly in flight and is capable of high-speed aerial manoeuvres.
Hobbies are listed as a Schedule 1 bird on The Wildlife and Countryside Act.
It is a bird of open country such as farmland, marshes, taiga and savannah. They are widespread in lowlands with scattered small woods. It is an elegant bird of prey, appearing sickle-like in flight with its long pointed wings and square tail, often resembling a swift when gliding with folded wings. It is fast and powerful in flight and will take large insects, such as dragonflies, which it transfers from talons to beak and eats while soaring slowly in circles. It also captures small bats and small birds in flight. Its speed and aerobatic skills enable it to take swallows and even swifts on the wing, and barn swallows or house martins have a characteristic "hobby" alarm call. It is known to harass swallows while they are roosting and dispersing from roosts. When not breeding, it is crepuscular, hawking principally in the mornings and evenings. While on migration, they may move in small groups.
Hobbies nest in old nests of crows and other birds. The tree selected is most often one in a hedge or on the extreme edge of a spinney, whence the bird can observe intruders from a considerable distance. It lays 2–4 eggs. Incubation is said to take 28 days and both parents share in this duty, though the female does the greater part.
It is a very bold and courageous bird and was used in falconry, trained to hawk birds like quails, larks, hoopoes, drongos, etc.
Population:
UK breeding:
2,800 pairs
Macro Mondays: Hobby
Detail of my walking shoe
One of my hobbies is walking.
I walk every day between five and ten Kilometers
Hello my amazing Flickr friends !!
Today is an orange day at Color My World Daily and the theme at Crazy Tuesday is hobby. And of course Mr. Teddy Bear is back with us, to celebrate Happy Teddy Bear Tuesdays.
The first hobby of Mr. Teddy Bear is photography but it was specified in the description of the theme that we cant choose photography. So Mr. Teddy Bear decided to show us his second hobby: reading and collecting books.
At one point, Mr. Teddy Bear was on the hunt for very tiny and vintage books. so he has a rather big collection of old prayers books, tiny dictionaries in different languages and a few miniature books on different subjects (like maths or knitting for instance)…
Even if his hobby takes a lot of space in his house (remember Mr. Teddy Bear is a miniature so his house is very tiny !!) , Mr. Teddy Bear loves collecting old books ! And so do I ! I can’t resist a vintage, old book with character !
And you know what else I cant hardly resist ? A cup of coffee and an amazing video meeting with my colleagues… and Nutella, and an egg, and also gin and tonic….Of course the video meeting is a joke but i have to participate anyways… I wish you all an amazing day and see you later my friends !!
Thank you so much for all your lovely comments / favs/ general support / happy thoughts!! Stay safe and well!! And see you soon on Flickr !!
Taken at Chew Valley Lake in North Somerset, UK.
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Been to the fen twice this spring for these masters of the voids. Up to thirty five have been up, but way too high feeding. So here is an old one until the Dragonflies emerge in numbers, and the Hobbys lower their hunting forays.This a juvenile fuelling up, before heading off to warmer climes.