Who needs a telly....

[bikething]

When you can watch this from the back window

Just spotted lunch...

...get into position..

ready... Steady.....

GO !!

The next shot was just a blurry patch of grass

 

[Toddy]

Tv's much over rated

Especially when the reality out the window is like that

Nice photos
cheers for sharing

Toddy

 

[bushcraftbob]

what bird is that then??

 

[British Red]

Oh she is gorgeous

Never got a good sequence of a female - got some nice male shots a while back!

 

[Retired Member southey]

They are some great pics chap, lovely to see,

 

[Galemys]

A female kestrel, beautiful pic´s!

Cheers,

Tom

 

[bikething]

what bird is that then??

Kestrel - IIRC it's the only hawk that hovers ?
Females are darker in colouring - The males have lighter (almost grey) head and tail.

Oh she is gorgeous

Never got a good sequence of a female - got some nice male shots a while back!

That was her 3rd dive - the shots of the first 2 where just silhouettes until I knocked the exposure compensation up by 2 stops to compensate for the light background.

Think I need to upgrade to a camera with a better frame rate though

 

[Loenja]

very nice sequence there

 

[British Red]

Interestingly buzzards have been learning to hover lately. There was a great article on it a while back.

For bushcraftbob - this is a male - you can see the grey / brown colouring rather than the plain brown of the female

Kestrel by British Red, on Flickr

Kestrel3 by British Red, on Flickr

Red

 

[Paul_B]

I had a nice kestral hove above my car sunroof while stuck at a road junction for 10 minutes coming off the M6 near me. It was a very hot day and it slowly hovered over the grass verge then it kind of let itself hover completely overhead my sunroof. It was seriously looking into my car. I know I was putting a crook in my neck trying to look straight up at it. Eye to eye. I wathced it hovering for most of the time I was stopped in the jam. I have also seen a kestral all the way along that motorway slip road and to the left after that junction. It was on the road off the junction that I once saw a kestral covering its prey while it was eating. I saw it looking up and around then reaching under its wings and I heard a ripping noise and it looked up again to check it was still safe. It is nice to see them covering their prey. I suppose it is because they are hiding their catch or is there another reason?