Otherwise known as the Hobby a fantastic bird to watch. It is a small falcon.  One of my favourites! I watched four of them hawking for insects today. I managed to see one of them passing it’s prey from talons to beak in flight-brilliant! There are beautifully streamlined and acrobatic birds flying at speed. I wish I could say the picture above is mine but they are so quick and my camera isn’t good enough!

One silly fact for those of us who once played the table football game Subbuteo (I wasted many of my formative hours) Originally its creator Peter Adolph applied to get the game called Hobby but it was refused as a trademark so he called Subbuteo instead. When I used to play the game I knew nothing about the bird!

The other picture below is a Ross’s Goose in Frampton this morning (so this one is my picture!) These birds are normally found in the Tundra in North America so it is a surprise to find one here. Some people suspect it maybe an escapee, but who knows?