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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 32
Image Taken on 14 Jul 2008
at 08:16 Image of day on 27 Jul 2008
Kestrels (the birds often seen hovering over motorways) are wonderful
to watch whether hovering or not.
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Image Taken on 16 Oct 2023
at 13:18 Image of day on 30 Nov 2023
Away the female Kestrel goes - this one accurately spaced using the foliage for
reference - a bit over half a second of flight.
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Image Taken on 16 Oct 2023
at 13:17 Image of day on 30 Nov 2023
One of the female Kestrels spends a few minutes hunting the area using the usual
fly along a bit and then hover for a few seconds.
Spacing is closer than reality.
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Image Taken on 25 Mar 2022
at 12:03 Image of day on 26 Apr 2022
She flew off as the camera captured this moment of flight.
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Image Taken on 01 Jan 2019
at 14:25 Image of day on 05 Feb 2019
The first decent sighting of a Kestrel, here a female, for months.
She flew past in the distance ...
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Image Taken on 14 Dec 2020
at 09:35 Image of day on 17 Jan 2021
The local female Kestrel spent most of the day hunting over 1000 square metres
of farm margin saturated grass. Read this flight from right to left - the
leftmost bird is folding her wings making her look suddenly smaller.
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Image Taken on 14 Dec 2020
at 09:39 Image of day on 18 Jan 2021
What a beautiful creature
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Image Taken on 03 Aug 2016
at 16:09 Image of day on 19 Sep 2016
A female Kestrel went hunting over the adjacent field.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2023
at 15:52 Image of day on 06 Nov 2023
We didn't get any closer, but the female Kestrel decided to move on, flying
past us at full flying speed, again accurately montaged at 7 fps.
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Ref: 20231106_df3_20230915_1552_259-262 kestrel female in flight @7fps 1 to 4 of 4 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Sep 2023
at 10:46 Image of day on 30 Oct 2023
Next day the female Kestrel makes a fly-by.
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Ref: 20231030_df3_20230909_1046_037-041 kestrel female in flight @7fps 4-8 of 8 (approx montage @7fps)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Feb 2011
at 10:17 Image of day on 31 Mar 2011
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Image Taken on 13 Feb 2021
at 12:47 Image of day on 15 Mar 2021
A Gale blowing from the left allows our local female Kestrel to rise from her perch
with barely a flap of the wings. Accurately montaged over 1 second.
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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2010
at 10:55 Image of day on 16 Dec 2010
The new female kestrel taking a look at the landlords.
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Image Taken on 13 Mar 2010
at 11:22 Image of day on 22 Apr 2010
A pair of kestrels mostly hunt in adjacent areas with a boundary
roughly to our North and South of our patch. But they spent some
time hunting together without conflict in an overlapping area
around our patch giving us the chance to take this flyover of
the female who usually stays to the North..
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Ref: 20100422_df1_20100313_1122_263-5 kestrel female in flight looking at camera 1-3 of 3 (artistic montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Sep 2021
at 13:34 Image of day on 27 Oct 2021
Another moment from the local female Kestrel's flight
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Image Taken on 07 Mar 2016
at 06:59 Image of day on 06 Apr 2016
The female Kestrel was out early hunting, gradually moving east
away from us in her usual hunting pattern whether she can see us
or not.
The gold colour is from early morning sunshine.
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Image Taken on 11 Sep 2007
at 18:36 Image of day on 14 Oct 2007
We were surprised by one visit by a kestrel (see 28 Feb 2007)
and now we have another. This site is more enclosed and the bird
seems to be flying from a clearing where we felled a falling tree
a few weeks ago & had a load of Blackthorn removed by local RSPB
volunteers. We think the claw contains a piece of rabbit rather
than a whole rodent.
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Image Taken on 11 Jun 2020
at 13:32 Image of day on 16 Jul 2020
Out trusty female Kestrel flies past with some obvious prey in her talons, but with no hope
of an ID of the unfortunate creature.
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Image Taken on 06 Jan 2024
at 13:20 Image of day on 05 Feb 2024
She then flies around the SE corner of our patch and lands in one of the conifers
inside our patch, viewed from the outside.
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Image Taken on 01 Jan 2019
at 14:25 Image of day on 05 Feb 2019
... dived down onto the crop, didn't seem to catch her prey, ...
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