Male American Kestrel With A Big Fat Vole In fact it’s one of the largest voles I’ve seen (don’t worry, there’s nothing graphic here). Continue reading
Male American Kestrel In Light So Warm It May Border On Too Warm A little too much of a good thing? Continue reading
Sidelit Male American Kestrel I finally got reasonably close to a couple of kestrels yesterday morning at Farmington Bay. Continue reading
The Value Of Takeoff Shot Failures I often pay nearly as much attention to my failed takeoff and flight shots as I do to my successes. Continue reading
American Kestrel Struggling To Feed On A Large Vole Just holding onto your lunch isn’t always easy when you’re 20′ in the air and the prey is relatively large. Continue reading
American Kestrel Balancing Act This male stretched every limb he possibly could simultaneously which I thought resulted in an awkward but endearing pose. Continue reading
Male American Kestrel In A Setting I Adore Today’s post includes only a single image but it’s one I like very much. Continue reading
Female American Kestrel With Prey It’s been a while since a kestrel allowed me a close approach so I appreciated the close action as this female enjoyed her furry breakfast on a great perch (photos are not gory). Continue reading
Female American Kestrel In A Setting I Love Occasionally one of my photos will grow in me the more I reflect on it and this one from yesterday morning is an example. Continue reading
A New Way To Report Banded American Kestrels Now that much of the preliminary work for this project has been done HawkWatch International needs eyes. Lots of eyes. Continue reading
A Serendipitous American Kestrel Yesterday Morning It was almost like I called this bird out of the sky. Continue reading
Male American Kestrels Getting Some Tail And there’s more than one way to get it done. Continue reading
Male American Kestrel Acting Strangely I’ve had a change of heart about the likely cause of his unusual behavior. Continue reading
American Kestrel With Vole Prey – The Rest Of The Story It’ll take 16 more images to tell the rest of the story that I started yesterday but I thought it was worth telling. Continue reading
Male American Kestrel – An Aborted Takeoff With Prey This may end up on my short list of favorite kestrel photos. Continue reading