Australian Hobby close-up, Brown Falcon and others

After my last post on an Australian Hobby experience (see that post here ), the last thing I was expecting any time soon was another close-up experience. But, if you keep looking, you never know what is going to appear. I was driving along the road from Laramba to Aileron, and could see a largish bird on one of the roadside trees. As it is a dirt road, the birds normally fly off well before the approaching car covers them with dust. I noticed this bird wasn't moving, so slowed down, probably just another of the many brown falcons along the road. As I drew nearer however, I could see it was an Australian Hobby and it seemed to be cleaning its beak on the large branch it was sitting on. Still believing it would fly off when I stopped, I hadn't even wound the window down. I pulled up across the road from the tree (a bit laughable as there is room for about 1 and a half cars on some spots on this road), the bird was still sitting there. I soon realised why. I stopped, wound down the window, turned off the engine and readied the camera. Here are the resulting photos:

Australian Hobby

I saw a few other birds in the late afternoon, here are the photos:

Brown Falcon:

Magpie Lark:

Crested Pigeon:

Enjoy your Bird-watching!