Hobby eating a dragonfly - a photo on Flickriver

            Apologies for posting yet another photograph of a Hobby but this is the first year I have managed to get decent photographs of this species as they are pretty thin on the ground in West Yorkshire.  But I had some amazing sessions in late September with this confiding juvenile that repeatedly captured dragonflies just above my head.  I can see that this is a male Migrant Hawker that is being despatched but Common Darters also fell prey.  Recent DNA evidence has shown that falcons are not closely related to eagles, hawks and buzzards but their closest relatives are parrots.  The way this Hobby is holding and eating this dragonfly is certainly more like a parrot than a hawk.  The BTO say there are 2800 pairs of Hobby breeding in Britain compared with about 1100 pairs of Merlin, 1,800 pairs of Peregrine and 45,000 pairs of Kestrel, making them Britain's second commonest falcon (out of 4).  Although living in the Pennines, I see far fewer Hobbies than the other three.
   

Taken on: September 26, 2019

Tags:

Falco

subbuteo

Falcon

West

Yorkshire

dragonfly

Migrant

Hawker

Aeshna

mixta

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Sets appears in: • British Birds

Groups appears in: • Birds Feeding

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