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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 33
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 04 Nov 2025
at 10:20 Image of day on 28 Dec 2025
This female Kestrel makes a fly-by.
This is every frame at 8fps so 1 second of flight accurately positioned.
The separation of the two on the right looks odd, but checked to be accurate.
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Ref: 20251228_r70_20251104_1020_001-008 kestrel female in flight @8fps 1-8 of 8 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 04 Nov 2025
at 10:20 Image of day on 28 Dec 2025
One of our favourite moments from the flight.
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Ref: 20251228_r70_20251104_1020_005 kestrel female in flight @8fps 5 of 8 (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 04 Nov 2025
at 10:20 Image of day on 28 Dec 2025
Another of our favourite moments from the flight.
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Ref: 20251228_r70_20251104_1020_008 kestrel female in flight @8fps 8 of 8 (crop 2)(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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Ref: 20110331_df1_20110227_1017_158-161 kestrel female in flight at 7 fps 1-4 of 4 (arbitrary montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
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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Ref: 20210315_df3_20210213_1247_006-011 kestrel female in flight into gale by conifer 1-6 of 6 (accurate montage @7fps)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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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Ref: 20101216_df1_20101019_1055_091 kestrel female in flight looking at camera (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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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Ref: 20160406_df3_20160307_0659_117-120 kestrel female in flight soon after sunrise 1-4 of 4 (close spaced montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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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Ref: 20071014_d35_20070911_1836_008 fb2 kestrel female in flight with piece of rabbit (q) prey (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
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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Ref: 20200716_d73_20200611_1332_069 kestrel female in flight with unidentified prey in claws(r+mb id@432).jpg
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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Ref: 20240205_df3_20240106_1320_171 kestrel female initial landing on conifer branch(r+mb id@768).jpg
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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Ref: 20190205_df3_20190101_1425_072 kestrel female landing after hover(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 31 Jan 2022
at 12:20 Image of day on 05 Mar 2022
The female Kestrel made a brief visit to the Meadow Post.
The half-bird on the left is NOT a Damian Hurst inspired artistic effect!
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Ref: 20220305_d01_20220131_1220_021-1222_024_fb6 kestrel female landing and departure on meadow post 1-4 of 4 (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Dec 2020
at 09:56 Image of day on 19 Jan 2021
Once at sufficient height she flew to another tree branch for the next hunt.
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Image Taken on 10 Apr 2020
at 16:12 Image of day on 26 Apr 2020
One of our last few regular sightings for now of the local female Kestrel,
landing on the grass for just a moment, presumably to pick up some morsel she
has spotted, before flying on. We expect she is now incubating eggs somewhere.
The male Kestrel hunts to our north and we can only rarely see him but he is
most probably 'hunting for two' at the moment.
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Ref: 20200426_d73_20200410_1612_008-017 kestrel female landing momentarily on grass then flying on 1+3+5-7+9+10 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 11 Oct 2020
at 07:49 Image of day on 21 Nov 2020
Read this sequence right to left as the camera caught the landing
of the female Kestrel on the 11kV cable. You see here about 1 second of action.
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Ref: 20201121_df3_20201011_0749_037-043 kestrel female landing on 11kv cable 1-7 of 7 (spread montage @ 7fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Aug 2022
at 06:50 Image of day on 26 Sep 2022
This nervous female Kestrel doesn't like us walking down the Farm Road 50m away,
and flies 100m from the nearer pole to the next one along.
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Ref: 20220926_d72_20220815_0650_168-170+172+174 kestrel female landing on 11kv crossbar (accurate montage @8fps)jpg(r+mb id@768).jpg
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