The Hobby, what a fantastic bird to watch as they hawk for Dragonflys over the Marshes, my father in law was introduced to the aerobatics of this graceful Hawk as we stopped for our lunch break in the Shooting Butts hide at Rainham, they certainly put on a good display for us.
There were at least three circling the marsh on this occasion, but I have seen in the past, up to eleven of these hawking over the reedbeds, albeit over Stodmarsh on that occasion.
Trying to get a photograph of a Hobby is a frustrating process altogether, they are so fast, I find it extremely difficult to get a fix on them, but its always worth a try, these two photographs were the only ones in which the bird could be recognized as a Hobby.
There seems to be plenty of Dragonfly's around the marsh still as autumn creeps on, mainly Migrant Hawkers and Ruddy Darters, but the Hobbies are certainly depleting there numbers as they pass through.
It wont be long now until they leave our shores, returning to tropical Africa, but there be back late spring next year, something to look forward to.
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