Who needs a telly....

bikething

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West Devon, Edge of Dartymoor!
When you can watch this from the back window :D

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Just spotted lunch...

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...get into position..

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ready... Steady.....

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GO !!

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The next shot was just a blurry patch of grass :rolleyes:
 

British Red

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Oh she is gorgeous :)

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

bikething

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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 :rolleyes:
 

British Red

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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

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Paul_B

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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?
 

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