I watched two hobbies for at least 20 minutes last night hunting over the main pit at Bainton. Unusually they were hunting low over the water like swallows or sand martins, presumably picking up emerging insects, patrolling backwards and forwards across the water, occasionally shooting up after prey and hunching up in that familiar manner as they pass prey from talon to mouth.
Occasionally too they broke the surface of the water with their talons or even skimmed it with their wing-ends.
They were joined by 4 or 5 black headed gulls and a couple of common terns. A kingfisher too flashed over the water and there were about 50 swifts overhead with a cuckoo calling in the background. Nightingale and garden warbler were singing on the heath.
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