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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KenM" data-source="post: 3230001" data-attributes="member: 57880">Am currently in a "relatively" speaking broadband desert for the next few days thus my communications will be somewhat hampered however FWIW, my experience of RFF prior to this "retrospective" sighting were minimal, mostly perched with only occasional limited flight sorties. My opinion was also of a shorter, more blunt winged bird as compared to Hobby.Last year I visited Hungary and whilst on the train I observed several male birds hunting over the fields and village that I'd visited...and was struck! by the apparent long scythe like wings, when in pursuit of invertebrate prey items, somewhat at variance to what I'd had previous limited experience of in the UK, presumably wing structure is "not set in stone" as might be preferred by certain critics. Indeed most BOP's probably have the most extreme variable wing geometry compared to most groups.Am not in a position for several days to download anymore images, suffice to say that the existing images as heavily pixelated (on enlargement) as they are, convey RFF rather than Hobby, particularly the last image.Cheers</blockquote>