A hobby

First spotted by BH sitting in the top of a small tree in the rather overgrown graveyard attached to the church at Brading, on the Isle of Wight. Maybe twenty feet away from us. With the extensive Brading marshes, a lot of which are owned by the RSPB behind. Wet land, dry land and a scatter of scrub and small trees.

It sat in its tree while we peered at it, in my case with the trusty monocular from Celestron. My note, made at the time, said brown body, grey flat-topped head, speckled chest, conspicuous yellow bump on the top of the beak. About the same length as a wood pigeon but rather slimmer.

BH was sure that one of her leaflets about the area mentioned hobbies and this seemed to be confirmed at reference 1.

So I hereby claim a tweet of a Eurasian hobby, otherwise Falco subbuteo.

Image from Bing, as my telephone is not much good at this sort of thing.

PS 1: I notice that most snaps in my posts have acquired little symbols top right when you hover over them, at least on this HP laptop. Clicking pulls all kinds of stuff into the right hand panel of the screen. A panel intended by Google (the owner of the Blogger software) for advertising, which I neither care nor choose to do, but appropriated in this case by Microsoft. A lot of related images and some stuff about shopping. Will this gradually morph into lots of advertisements? Will they still be there if I switch from Microsoft's Edge to Google's Chrome? I associate to the bar codes which have been included in our recently enlarged postage stamps, yet another channel for mostly unwanted, distracting stuff to be pushed at us.

PS 2: at least clicking away from the symbols still works, that it to say pulls the snap out to full screen, for closer examination.

References

Reference 1: https://www.birdingplaces.eu/en/birdingplaces/united-kingdom/rspb-brading-marshes.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_(bird).

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_hobby.