2024 has been another dramatic year featuring our fabulous Live Hobby cam showing live footage from a wild Hobby nest in rural Dorset, England of theEurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo).
2024
It is the start of another amazing year on our live camera at a wild Hobby nest somewhere in rural Dorset. There will be hours of interactions, food passes, interesting prey deliveries, sibling squabbles and all kinds of weather, and each year we marvel at how quick these little birds turn from a tiny hatchling, to a fluff ball, and finally into fully feathered young falcons ready to take to the skies. Of course, this is a wild nest and nature follows her own rules so we will have to see how they fare.
This will be our 3rd year filming at this nest and we think this is the fourth year the pair has used the same nest site. Given that Hobby mostly over-winter in the southern half of Africa, it’s amazing to know these birds have flown so far and returned to lay their eggs in the same 6 square inches at least 4 years in a row! The camera system was prior to the breeding season and involves a complex set of cabling, solar panels and wireless bridges across 5km of farmland to send the video to a location with good enough internet to enable live streaming.
We look forward to bringing you more details soon. See here for how they got on in 2023.
This camera is provided by http://wildlifewindows.co.uk and is brought to you by Dorset Raptor Study Group and Wildlife Windows.
