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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 33
Image Taken on 14 Dec 2020
at 12:49 Image of day on 20 Jan 2021
A good view of the feathers on our female Kestrel.
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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2020
at 16:56 Image of day on 01 Mar 2020
In the above montage, and more clearly here, you can see that this female has
a single Grey tail feather to the left - a tail with the female markings but male colour.
Gender just isn't simple is it!
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Ref: 20200301_d01_20200203_1656_027_fb6 kestrel female with single grey tail feather landing back to camera on meadow post(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Oct 2009
at 10:42 Image of day on 04 Nov 2009
A lovely surprise was 2 female kestrels flying overhead
within the same minute - first a 'normal' and secondly our 'blonde' bird.
We have montaged two similar aerial positions together to show the different
colouring.
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Ref: 20091104_db1_20091002_1042_154+173 kestrel females (normal and blonde) flyover (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 18 Oct 2009
at 14:50 Image of day on 27 Nov 2009
A Kestrel flyby - we definitely felt 'watched'.
Artistic layout only - just an 'impression'.
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Image Taken on 17 Jun 2008
at 16:10 Image of day on 01 Jul 2008
The male Kestrel had a leg injury and was struggling a bit, but
now seems to be back to his old health.
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Image Taken on 20 Apr 2007
at 17:54 Image of day on 09 May 2007
In the evening sun a Kestrel swooped and hovered over our patch
for a few minutes, the sun for once lighting the underside.
Here is one while it was hovering - we didn't see it catch anything.
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Image Taken on 13 Dec 2009
at 10:59 Image of day on 18 Jan 2010
Despite the difficult lighting, this kestrel hovering in a strong
wind with wings and claws all over the place had to be included.
In this sequence the bird was basically stationary horizontally
but gradually losing height relative to a cloud line near the top.
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Ref: 20100118_db1_20091213_1059_154-159 kestrel hovering & slowly losing height 04-09 of 10 (vertically accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 01 Mar 2010
at 10:03 Image of day on 30 Mar 2010
A Kestrel hovering always into the wind with some lovely detail
of the feathers. 2 images from the same 'hover' shown side
by side. They keep their head position amazingly still while the
wings, tail and body move all over the place.
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Ref: 20100330_df1_20100301_1003_189+1002_187 kestrel hovering (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 21 Jun 2009
at 17:44 Image of day on 18 Jul 2009
This kestrel has made repeated visits to one corner of the site,
most of the time in drab overcast condition when one enjoys
taking the pics (about 600) but only a few are worth keeping.
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Image Taken on 23 Sep 2015
at 11:01 Image of day on 21 Nov 2015
About 400m from us this Kestrel made a characteristic hunting
hover, dropping down in stages on some hapless prey. We never saw
what happened once below the hedge.
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Ref: 20151121_df3_20150923_1101_026+032+040+043+049 kestrel hovering and dropping down in stages against trees 01+02+04+07+12 of 12 (accurate montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Jun 2010
at 13:35 Image of day on 24 Jul 2010
The male kestrel doesn't normally put on a good show when we are
about, but was very intent on a hunt. He hovered for several
minutes over the pasture.
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Ref: 20100724_df1_20100617_1335_465 kestrel hovering in hunt (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Nov 2011
at 13:27 Image of day on 17 Dec 2011
The previous day he had obliged with a bit of hovering. This is a
selection of 3 images from 31 as he spotted something and dived
out of camera frame and then out of sight.
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Ref: 20111217_df1_20111102_1327_151+171+177 kestrel hovering in strong wind 08+20+24 of 31 (vertical montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 26 Oct 2015
at 12:29 Image of day on 17 Dec 2015
A Kestrel hovering above a hedge but not catching anything before
wandering off to the east. The bird was stationary in the air and
the images are spread out downwards
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Ref: 20151217_df3_20151026_1229_010-013 kestrel hunting in southerly wind 2-5 of 5 (hovering impression montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 31 Oct 2008
at 08:30 Image of day on 18 Nov 2008
On Thursday at 06:50 with it barely light we saw from the car a
Kestrel hunting over the local road. It flew off as we slowed
down & don't know which sex. But on Friday a bright start tempted
us out with the camera (until the rising wind at near freezing
drove us in) and this female kestrel obliged with a flyby
obviously giving us a number of suspicious glances.
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Ref: 20081118_dc1_20081031_0830_017 female kestrel in flight(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 18 May 2008
at 13:00 Image of day on 28 May 2008
The male kestrel is about this area a number of times each day
at the moment.
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Image Taken on 23 Oct 2007
at 13:50 Image of day on 23 Nov 2007
Not the female kestrel this time (possibly a juvenile male)
spent quite a while hovering into the wind over some of our
rough grass. The wind/sun directions were hopeless for good
photos, but it did do a few sweeps round offering this opportunity.
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Image Taken on 05 Mar 2010
at 12:32 Image of day on 08 Apr 2010
Just for the joy of showing three Kestrel pics in one go.
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Image Taken on 13 Oct 2016
at 12:01 Image of day on 24 Nov 2016
A short fly-by by a Kestrel. This bland sky is this time featureless
cloud preventing accurate spacing
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Image Taken on 04 Oct 2010
at 16:12 Image of day on 24 Nov 2010
A portrait of our new local female Kestrel flying along in the distance.
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Image Taken on 21 Feb 2015
at 15:12 Image of day on 05 Apr 2015
This female Kestrel took off from an 11KV power pole crossbar and
flew a series of curves that took her close to us. We captured
this sequence over about one third of a second here accurately
montaged against clouds (which are out of this montage crop).
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Ref: 20150405_df2_20150221_1512_148-150 kestrel in flight 1-3 of 3 (accurate montage @7fps)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
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