#kestrels

They are the smaller birds of prey, but perfect hunters. It is a Rock Kestrel (Falco rupicolus). Now I don't know where the guy at the left robbed a nest, as all that I saw, was that he was landing on

Not every day that you will see this, and I was so happy to get it. Freedom! I think someone captured this Jackal Buzzard (Buteo Rufofuscus), and it freed itself. I cannot for a moment think why anyone

At first he had breakfast, then a drink, and then a bath. I think that is a big rock lizard that he caught, but I cannot be sure. How about that? A rock kestrel catching a rock lizard:)) At first, we thought

I went into the territory of a Rock Kestrel (Falco rupicolus) with the idea to get him in flight. Maybe I would also catch him on camera attacking some prey. Not easy to get them, but a careful search

I saw that there was a bird at the top of that insulated tower. Definitively not a dove, or a pigeon and it had to be something else. But impossible to get the bird at that height and light? In my book,

Baby kestrels grow and develop normally. One problem is that they are hunting the wildfowl that I have already caught for them ...

I paid a visit to my village nature reserve to check out the kestrel chicks in their bird box. Usually, in July they make an appearance so I wasn't disappointed. The parents return to the tree every year.