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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halftwo" data-source="post: 1821982" data-attributes="member: 45720">Three Birds Again07:30-09:30 On site with Sid. Sunshine, (with early misty cloud) getting warm.Found the pair more or less exactly where I'd left them twelve hours previously. After some time I saw a bird perched nearby which gave excellent views: another adult-plumaged bird! The pair obviously hadn't seen it and stayed put. We speculated about it being the same interloper as yesterday, and the possibility of it being an offspring of the pair. It looked female to me - confirmed several minutes later when it took off and headed south, leisurely - the early morning sun doing full justice to the superb plumage - and making it look very dark on the underwing. Either adult or a second year bird fully moulted.Within seconds of its flight there came a "kip kip" call from one of the pair and they were off and catching up with the intruder, which kept heading fairly slowly (for a Hobby) south.The three flew parallel lines until Sid saw one (probably the female) make more of an attempt at seeing it off, the other circling back, by now all quite distant. We managed to lose the pair and assumed they had decided to hunt - but five minutes later, unseen by us they had got back to where they started - as we could hear one calling clearly. The gentle way the interloper had been treated in contrast to yesterday's full-on attack makes me wonder if this bird was a different bird to yesterday, and a young of the pair, which they recognised. Wish I knew. We managed to find one perched again after it had done a quick fly around and left them in the same area. Ominous clouds gathered as we went.</blockquote>

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