A visit today to Fowlmere RSPB reserve. At one point, I was trying to catch a good shot of Swifts in flight, low over the lake at the Reed Bed Hide. I tracked this one and got off just the one shot, thinking "That was a large Swift." Checking the LCD screen, I realised that was no Swift, that was a Hobby! What a piece of luck.
BTW I thought for a while this was a Peregrine Falcon, from the face markings, before we realised that Hobbies have much the same markings, and were far more likely in this area.
Canon 60D with Canon EF-S 18-200mm at 200mm, 1/1250 sec at f/7.1, ISO 3200
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