A photo taken at Sandwich in Kent of a Hobby was posted on Twitter only for it to be re identified as an Eleonora’s Falcon. Question is would it do what all the recent sightings had done and vanish without a trace having only been seen by the finder? Thankfully no and the following morning it was seen at Worth Marshes and showed well all day.
Saturday dawned and at 4am George and Matt joined me on he trip down. We arrived in good time and joined the throng of birders around 6am. A birder told us that the female Red-footed Falcon was on show distantly in a bush which we got onto and was my first since the male at Wilstone back in 2010. He also told us about a falcon sat in a bush by the railway also at a distance. We got on it and it looked promising. After a couple of hours a Magpie annoyed it enough to make it move and sure enough it was the 2nd year female ELEONORA’S FALCON the first ever twitchable bird to the masses. Unfortunately after 4.5 hours of watching it do nothing apart from fly from one bush to the adjacent one when a crow flushed it we had to leave and so we never saw it properly in flight. It decided to do that about 25 minutes after we left! So along with a couple of Hobby it was a 3 falcon day and Avocet was also added to the year list.
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