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I live in a camper van with a West Highland Terrier for company.
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Thursday 30 September 2021

A BEAUTIFUL BIRD.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been enjoying watching a fit bird chasing other fit birds. She catches the occasional Tit. I must have fired off fifty shots trying to catch her in the act, that's over two rolls of film in old money. I've always been a hopeless birder but have managed a snap of it sitting on a power pole.
This is the culprit, a female Kestrel, males have a grey head. I wish I could get a picture of her doing something interesting.



That's all for today.

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful kestrel. What's Brexit? Some new Covid variant?

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    1. Graham, she is gorgeous and seems to arrive most days around 3.30pm and hangs about for an hour or so.
      Brexit was a dream that has sadly never really materialised, a bit like the millions forecast to die from Covid. I can see how the two could become conflated.

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  2. That is a particularly good Andrew Lawrence which I should publish on my blog, it would cause a kerfuffle.

    I was looking at a Kestrel this afternoon. It is good to see them in flight.

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    1. Folk will be clutching their pearls and fainting.
      They are too fast for me to snap in flight.
      A damp start here but if it brightens up I'll pop out for an imaginary conversation with some folk I didn't meet.

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  3. Hi Adrian, Graham could tell you about how long we sat in the car waiting for a kestrel to return to her roadkill - and still didn't get a good shot. I think they are wonderful to watch.

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    1. Pauline, wildlife photography is all about waiting.

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  4. Always something majestic about the appearance of the smaller raptors. Never seen a Kestrel and was thinking it was a long time since a Sparrow Hawk visited the garden when one appeared this morning.

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