Eurasian Hobby

Hancock (1874) mentioned three records that occurred in 1853, 1859 and 1863. Bolam (1912) found two more records from 1959 that were recorded by H. B. Tristram.

It was 1950 before the next occurrence which occurred on Holy Island in July. The 1998 BiN states that one roosted on the cliffs on Brownsman and provided the Farne Islands with its first substantiated record, but, there were two previous occurrences there, both in May, in 1859 and 1956! 

See the graphs for the following occurrences when records were discontinued due to breeding taking place.

Breeding took place in 1966 near Blagdon when two young were fledged. It was another thirty years before the next successful breeding attempt when a pair raised two young in a south-western locality. The following year the were four pairs in the same area with only two of the pairs rearing two young each. The same number were reared the next year, but in 1999 the two breeding pairs only fledged one each.

Further breeding followed every year until 2005. However, in 2011 a continually calling juvenile with an adult in central Northumberland was probably a case of breeding having took place.

Records discontinued.