Little Paxton - balcony birding 19 August 2012

More cloud than this morning with a fresher south-easterly breeze intermittent sky watch from the balcony mid afternoon onwards...

The undoubted highlight was a family group of five Hobbies which lingered over Mill Field catching high flying dragonflies, they were present for well over and hour offering lovely views and whilst watching the Hobbies three Black-tailed Godwits appeared in my binocular view as they took precautionary evasive action away from the Hobbies and off south-eastwards. Later several observations of single Hobbies were doubtless the same birds but who knows maybe there was something of a passage of these dashing falcons underway. Otherwise 6 Common Terns flew south along the Ouse, 4 Yellow Wagtails high south and a group of 13 Swifts drifted high south-west. 

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