Red-footed Falcon at Fen Drayton Cambridgeshire.

It still feels funny not being able to go birding in one car, with Brian going on his own & Jimmy & I going to the same place in my car.
Brian went yesterday to Fen-Drayton & got to tick the Red-footed Falcon so of course, we had to get our fill of the bird.
We never left till 7 am & after a clear run we are parking up at Fen Drayton RSPB in Cambridgeshire inside an hour.
At first, we head off the wrong way but a call to Brian soon gets us on the right track.
It's a bit of a trot before we find a few birders standing up on the ridge by the busway overlooking the sheep field where we are told the bird had been seen but had flown off but had done that a few times before returning to this corner of the field that it seems to favour.
Sure enough after 10 minutes or so the Falcon returns to sit on some bare land behind a wire fence, it hangs about not moving much so a good scope view but it was at a distance. The bird takes off & we are treated to a lovely flight view as it passes near to us before heading away & very high.
A nice year tick for us & we also tick Willow Warbler & we see Hobby, Kestral, another Turtle Dove that is the third one this year we have seen or heard.

A long way off but a record shot.Red-footed Falcon.