There were 20 or 30 flying over a sewage works that borders one of my permissions today, but come summer there will be hundreds,
For the last couple of years I've seen a couple of small hawks catching them that someone has told me are Hobbys. To be honest I wouldn't know how to distinguish one hawk from another, but I do love to spend a couple of hours on a nice sunny afternoon watching them, both sets of birds seem well matched against each other.,