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21-03-2007, 05:36 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006
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| | | Hobbys?
Hi guys. last year i really enjoyed wactching the hobbies by my house chasing swallows and performing aerobatics. I was wonderin when they start arriving this year. Is it soon  . Thanks guys  . |
21-03-2007, 05:39 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006
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| | | Re: Hobbys?
I think they start arriving from late April and continue into May. You're really lucky to have them over you house, I've never seen one but I'm going to try this year because I know they live near me!
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21-03-2007, 05:41 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
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| | | Re: Hobbys?
Its usually about another month, mid-April, before they start to appear here in Leicestershire.
This will vary depending on where you are in the UK though, further South may be earlier and North possibly later. |
22-03-2007, 10:17 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Suffolk Coast
Posts: 2,099
| | | Re: Hobbys?
Ther are primarily aeriel feeders so they can't come
this early or they won't find any food |
22-03-2007, 11:46 AM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006
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| | | Re: Hobbys?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hobjob  Ther are primarily aeriel feeders so they can't come
this early or they won't find any food | They are aerial birds + there may not be many large insects for them, but other birds form a considerable part of the diet, so finding food shouldn't be too much of a problem. Where I live they are regularly chasing Starlings amongst other birds over the roof tops.
There was a record of a bird around in Norfolk last December, which was very unseasonal, when it should have been in Africa. |
23-03-2007, 07:52 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
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| | | Re: Hobbys?
I usually see my first Hobby of the year (or up to 30 or 40 together) on warm, sunny spring days in early May at Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry near Canterbury in Kent.
Not long to wait now ....
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