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Also known as a Sparrowhawk or Windhover! A slender falcon and relatively small raptor; prey is often located by hovering above the ground on rapid wing-beats, using its fan-shaped tail as a rudder and keeping head and body still. Unfortunately it was moving very fast until the last couple of images which are out of focus anyway. However, you get the picture!
HAHA I just wish I had it's eyesight!
Tell me about it Baino! There is a reason why I post images without much writing this early in the morning! HAHA :) By the way ... the images ARE fuzzy - that's not your eyes!
I am beginning to think you live in an aviary. These kestrels are wonderful, chasing the ships and swooping on a ferry passenger eating popcorn!
If you want long post read mine for today. There is an award waiting for you.
This Kestrel was hunting small rodents in the shrubbery beside the sea - healthier than popcorn! Thankyou Ces, I have already left a comment on your long post and will be back after coffee when I can READ ;)
OH!!! Splendid shots! I love birds of prey ... I was just out on my porch looking at a kettle of nine hawks soaring. A friend of mine cares for injured hawks/falcons and he named his daughter Kestrel and his son Cooper, both after hawks. :)
p.s. I was just over at Milady's blog ... did you know my dad's family is bohemian Czech??
HAHA, this Kestrel was soaring back and forth over my head Melissa, and I still couldn't focus too well. They are mighty powerful birds, plus Kestrel and Cooper are both strong names :) PS: No I didn't know that! Were they gypsies who cursed? :O
We had gypsy neighbors several years ago. Very interesting. They had the same first and last names like Tom Tom. What's up with that? Did you know that gypsies originated in India?
Having the same first and last names probably meant they were all of an extended family, Ces. Just a guess. Cultural anthropologists hypothesised an Indian origin of the Roma based on linguistic evidence! Heehee
Some Filipinos have repetitive names like Bong Bong, Gigi, Koykoy or names like Robot and Girlie. Hehe! I need that cup of coffee.
You stll have not answered my question. Are you out and about taking bird photographs. My gosh, it looks like you have covered all of Australia and the ocean. Next I'll be seeing terns, pikes and swifts.
*!*I think that's what my lot were stretching necks skywards at on Friday. It was the funniest thing like little statues all beak upwards ... naturally I joined them looking up when I looked back down they were sitting in the trees laughing at me singing I made you look I made you stare Tsup*!*
What question is that Ces? I don't live in an aviary if that's what you're asking :) I'm answering your questions at home in Sydney Australia and won't be posting photographs of birds outside that demograph until I run out of birds here. It's true, I also have photographs from all over Australia and above the ocean HEEHEE!! COFFEE!!!!
Tsup*!* Tsup*!* Your birds are a naughty flock Bimbimbie! But of course that's what it's like when surrounded by mostly parrots ;) Hhehheee! However, I can't say that hasn't happened in my backyard. It can be very embarrassing ... especially if there's also a Laughing Kookaburra! *Tsup*!*
I think I may not have stated my question clearly, or did not eben ask it. I thought I did. I am wondering how you find these birds. Are you always going outside and looking for them or are they that abundant. The only birds we have around here are hawks, crows, egrets and warblers. I do find birds more often than I did before though. I just notice more of them. In the past, I never really paid attention. Oh wait! We have doves, blue jays, hummingbirds and cardinals in the mid spring and summer and oh I also see geese and ducks flying over during their migration. I cant' see the birds behind our backyard tree. There are at least six nests up there. Now I remember.
I mean "even".
You have mostly answered your own question Ces :) Notice birds wherever I go and keep the camera with me. I have always noticed birds and carried a camera because of my upbringing, but before digital photography, didn’t attempt to photograph birds! The places I normally visit do have lots of birds and sometimes when want to turn one of my expeditions into a challenge - seek out a particular bird. Each venture I usually have one unique find which is unexpected! However, Sunday excursions beyond the immediate backyard or holidays are mostly for relaxing - the birds happen to also relax me :) In fact, my bird filled backyard is also very relaxing! Perhaps if I stop drinking coffee I won't need to relax anymore!?! You will keep noticing more birds wherever you go Ces ;)
Anon, This are beautiful shots you've managed. You must've been there a while to get these, or wa it just luck that it flew over?
Love those tucked up toes.
Tsup*!* Please forgive my earlier omission being so pleased to finally see what it was I missed the other day. I completely forgot to tell you brilliant photos of the Kestrel *!*
Thankyou Red Mojo :) This Kestrel and its partner are in fact a couple of permanent locals just around the corner. They can be part-migratory and nomadic going North or South depending on moderate temperature - but these find too many mice and grasshoppers to leave ;)
Aren't the toes CUTE ElizT! A good shape for clutching a mouse!
Tsup*!* Tsup*!* You are forgiven Bimbimbie ;) I just realised you have now seen one of my birds FLY!
PS: If anyone is wondering why I’m at computer and not on a Sunday expedition, it’s because there is a massive storm outside!
hello anon. i am leaving now and i will think of you every time i hear a chirp, bwaaark, tweet, or Tsup.
i hope you have a wonderful holiday. i will miss you!
Tsup* just this one time...
:)
Hello KJ! You won't miss me because I will not be far away for long if you think of me that often HAHA! I hope you have a wonderful holiday as well! Thankyou for taking the time to say goodbye and Tsup* just this one time back :)
An angel if ever I saw one!
I have a new favourite - just behind Minnie and Jack :-D
My bird post is delayed :-[
The magpies moved out of my tree and a pair of crows took the nest over. I was hoping to photograph them but the owls in the neighbouring tree [who I seldom see but hear a lot] seemed to have had a disagreement with the crows and low and behold the crows are nowhere to be seen.
So.... my camera gently weeps :[
Birds of prey are amongst my favorites. Oliver does his best to amuse me by mimicing an owl and an eagle sometimes. Both crack me up because he is so NOT a predator!
Beautiful bird!
When I was at my mother-in-law's at Christmas time a sparrowhawk came into the garden and scared all the little birds away.
Looking at these photos I can see why!
how magnificent!
;->...
An angel until you see a Kestrel ripping its prey to pieces. OH that's a Dark Angel ;) Goodness, no rush for a bird post Miladysa - sometimes it can take days just to get a photograph that isn't just fuzz! Wait until Spring has most definitely sprung there first. You might even catch an owl ;)
HAHHAA, Parrots are funny Debra Kay! I love the "tough stalk walk", but if you watch the second movie above, the Lorikeet parrots aren't innocent in regards to being mean - even if they don't eat their 'prey' ;)
It is beautiful Caroline! I wouldn't want one landing in my garden either - even if I don't have rats or mice :)
The Kestrel is also magnificent Gledwood! :)
I think they are superb photos. I have tried ot get pictures of them and failed!
:o)
ps- when I was a boy I used to hide in the grass of the orchids and try to catch the hawk when it plunged into the grass- of course it never worked but it was fun to try!
Thankyou :) HAHA what would you have done if caught a hawk Simon? Apologies, I don't know how long your comments have been here for but 'comment notification' has missed quite a few comments the last couple days. I only looked here because wondered where 30 comments had arrived from!
I think I would have been in trouble anon!
I think you might have been too Simon! Heehee. The Kestrel knew you were there and could see you better than the other way around- I bet!
Almost like the American Hawk (which is a spirit guide animal for me...)
But, the Sparrowhawk looks very Egyptian (to me at least)
I think this is my new favorite bird!
I will still love Cookie and of course Jack.
HAHHAA Joy Eliz, You and Miladysa had better not let Jack hear either of you say that. He hides in the roof of his castle when a Nankeen Kestrel flies by! I don't know about Cookie but he wouldn't be laughing!
What amazing photographs Anonymous! Stunning and the bird looks so graceful and majestic. Great photography!
Thankyou AKiteRises, you are too kind :)
Ohhh beautiful kestrel!
It is Captain Modroom9!
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