‘Magnificent’ and once almost extinct bird of prey on the hunt<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n Paul Gruffalo Turner said: “Anyone who has spent time photographing the Hobby will know how difficult and frustrating they are.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Just keeping them in the lens is a challenge, so I\u2019m pretty buzzing to get this amazing split second in time shot of this beautiful male hunting at incredible speed and dexterity.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The dragonfly is just out of the frame.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I took lots of shots of just the water and missed the bird but feel extremely lucky to get this shot.”\n<\/p>\n
What is a Eurasian Hobby?<\/p>\n
\n Hobby Falcons are birds of prey that can look a bit like giant swifts.\n<\/p>\n
\n They are about the same size as a kestrel and are known for their quick flight when chasing large insects or small birds.\n<\/p>\n
\n The bird can fly up to 65mph during a chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eurasian Hobby, also known as Hobby, was captured by Worcester News Camera Club member Paul Gruffalo Turner.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-771749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}