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Message: <blockquote data-quote="halftwo" data-source="post: 1822654" data-attributes="member: 45720">A Nest InspectionCold early morning and after some searching the pair were calling distance-ward. They had come in from the north and the male was carrying something small - perhaps a large insect - and she was begging to him.They landed and perhaps were mating - but just hidden from me. The female followed her mate from branch to branch and tree to tree, finally settling, one of them in sight.Suddenly she was off at full tilt - low against the field - I heard the short, wader-like "klip kip" calls and suspected an intruder - and there it was - a female (possibly the same as yesterday) rising and heading off. The male had followed, but after just a few seconds and a few hundred yards, the pair turned back, leaving the interloper to circle and rise, eventually heading off southish.The pair have been keeping an eye on a couple of occupied Crows' nests, and now, with the Crows away, the female led the way to one and the pair sat right by it. Young Crows now looking fully grown and  visible above the nest rim. The parents returned and a scuffle between falcon and corvid sent the Hobbies back to perch nearby.Things settled down again and the numbing cold sent me off for breakfast.</blockquote>