Friday, 10 May 2013

Sad end to an interesting Hobby

Early this morning (about 06:30 a.m.) whilst doing a bird survey, Annie watched a hobby leave trees and land on a lamp-post near Bush Hill Pembroke. It flew off north in the blustery conditions.

Later in the day, we had a telephone call from Blaise Bullimore who, with his son Ross, had found a freshly dead hobby on the path at Westfield Pill. The cause of death seems most likely to have been hitting the overhead power cables that are nearby. 

We retrieved the bird from Blaise late in the afternoon. It was quite thin - its breast bone strongly prominent suggesting that it hadn't eaten for a while. A victim of the storm we assume. Was this the same bird as the one noted first thing near Pembroke Dock, or just a chance coincidence? A pity it had to end this way all the same.