#157

2 eggs laid, 34 days incubation, both eggs hatched approx. 11am (UK) 16th July 2025.

8/5💍 Identification ring was attached
A physical examination revealed they were male(CV) and female(CT)😍

【 Ringing Dorset Hobby chicks 2025】
   • Ringing Dorset Hobby chicks (Falco subbute...  

Ringing of Dorset live Hobby nest camera chicks under licence from British Trust for Ornithology 2025.
Please visit Dorset Raptor Study Group website to donate towards ongoing monitoring/study of these magnificent birds. www.drsg.co.uk

Climbing Tim Chamberlain
Ringing Jason Fathers
Assistance and filming Joe Macken
Music Kailem Winter

Thanks to Forestry England for access.

Dorset Raptor Study Group

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Dorset Live Hobby nest 2025 hatching
   • Dorset Live Hobby nest 2025 hatching  

Dorset Raptor Study Group and Wildlife Windows have been working with and assisting Forestry England for over 20 years. On a voluntary basis we help monitor and survey areas of forest for nesting raptors and feed information back to Forestry England for forestry operations / planning.

A focal species of our monitoring has been hobbies (Falco subbuteo). We have been watching, studying and ringing at a number of traditional sites for many years.

This year (2025) we are pleased to be able to deliver a live stream from a hobby nest within the Forestry England South Forest District. This site has been used by hobbies, successive generations, for at least the last 15 years while we have been watching them. Set within a forestry, heathland and bog environment this nest will almost certainly show a different variety of prey items than other nests we have collected diet data from.

Notes: This is a wild nest showing wild birds doing wild things. The main prey items will be birds and dragonflies and some bats.
The only intrusion to the nest site will be to ring the chick’s when they are approx. 2 weeks old to aid our long-term studies of these birds. This will be done under license by experienced raptor workers.

YouTube chat will be active this year. As moderators of the channel, we will try to answer questions but are busy working and doing raptor study field work so won’t be able to answer everything immediately. Please be considerate of others on the chat and be neighbourly. We reserve the right to disable the chat and/or stop the stream.
YouTube video harvesters…..we ask you to credit Wildlife Windows and Dorset Raptor Study Group when you post. A donation to DRSG via the just giving page would be appreciated (https://drsg.co.uk/).

Many thanks for watching and enjoy the wonderful world of hobbies!

Video courtesy of WildlifeWindows
   / @wildlifewindows  

Southern UK Hobby nest camera
https://www.youtube.com/live/MJaRwj44...


🎞Video Capture & Editing by @BirdParenting
   • 🦅🇬🇧Falcon Nest 2025  

I would like to express our respect and gratitude to "WildlifeWindows" for providing us with such a precious and wonderful scene live❤️

🍀🪺Thank you for watching🐣🍀