| Re: some kind of bird of pray!!
The o/p's bird sounds like a spar to me. Both the hobbies in the links have been captured stalling in flight (capturing insects), neither pic shows a typical flight shape of a hobby, which generally appears to have pointed wings. Hobbies are far from common in the Bolton area, closest place to see them on even an irregular basis is probably the mosses west of Salford, though they can be seen on an almost daily basis a few miles further west at Risley Moss at the moment. The bird I saw there last week was a 2nd summer female, so probably not breeding in the area.
Cheers
Jonathan |