HOBBY (Falco Subbuteo) Dorset 2024 ©︎WildlifeWindows-DRSG

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All pictures and videos courtesy of Wildlife Windows and Dorset Raptor Study Group

2023 THREAD

*** 2024 CAM *** (select the LIVE thumbnail)

QUOTE per ©️WildlifeWindows-DRSG

The adult male is the same male (he is ringed) but we think the female is a new bird as she doesn’t have the aberrant white feather on her head which has been present in previous years.

3 eggs have been laid which is a normal clutch size for hobbies.

Egg 1, 2nd June 6:47 pm

Egg 2, 5th June 6:46 am (60 hours)

Egg 3, 7th June 8:04 pm (61.25 hours)

Hatching should start approx. end of the first week in July

Hasty snaps to start us off:

THREE eggs:

Mama:

This season the cam has been enhanced with nighttime IR, hooray!

Mama tucked for the night:

IMAGICAT

  • Very difficult to be sure Scylla but I would have thought dragonfly as it was quite large & substantial, the only damsels I have seen are very light & delicate!

     

     2013 photos & vids here

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    WendyBartter said:
    I would have thought dragonfly as it was quite large

    Oh!  And I thought it was small so it must be a damselfly - but I have no experience of either.

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    02 August

    Wow!  This seems a sudden advancement - eyas is given the prey to deal with itself, and it does seem to manage - altho I only caught one "biting sighting":

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    Up to 15:00 there were at least 5 dragonfly meals.  In the middle snap, you can only see the wings sticking up against the field background.

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    Then there were bird meals fed by Mama at 18:00 and 19:30.  That's up to 21:00.

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