Great news, the hobbies were extremely vocal this morning, and volunteers Kathy and Peter went up the trail towards Galley Hill from the shop to investigate. They found at least two birds had hatched and were sitting up in the nest, with the adults in attendance looking over them. We now plan to set up a short hobby trail over the next couple of days to lead to the nest location and we'll advertise when we are holding hobby watch days.
Another of our volunteers, James, came across a young raven on the same trail- which was quite strange as they haven't bred on site. Luckily it turned out it wasn't injured and it had soon flown away.
The buzzards fledged at the weekend, so our buzzard watch has now ended, but it was a privilage to show the young birds on the nest through our telescope.