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--089e01419d8a1e3f45050c2d361e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In England they are very common. The easiest way to see them is simply to drive along the motorways. They hover over the verges alongside the highway. Apparently the vibration from heavy trucks causes small mammals to come to the surface in the grass beside the highway, and there they become easy prey. Also, if you can get it on Netflix or elsewhere, there was a good movie released in the UK in the 1970s called Kes, about a boy who rescued one and it became a pet. The movie was more about the boy and his coming of age than the kestrel. Richard On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Eric Mills E.Mills@Dal.Ca [NS-RBA] < NS-RBA-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > I had the opportunity to watch the Hartlen's Point Eurasian Kestrel in > action for a couple of hours around mid day today from a vantage point > along the road not far from the golf course gate. To be honest, there was > more inaction than action, but that is true of many larger birds, and this > one was no exception. > > > The kestrel arrived and perched in the spruces just NW of the enclosure > around the Hartlen's Point golf course club house. It was hard to spot at > first, but was evident without binoculars as a light spot against > the spruce branches. I suspect that it had been making sallies from that > area all morning. It was soon joined by a crow that seemed to be more > curious than aggressive, although occasionally it made a small movement > toward the kestrel, which shifted position once or twice in response. > Mainly however, the two remained about a meter apart, bill toward bill, f= or > about an hour. Then the crow seemed to tire of the watch over the kestrel > and flew off. Within a few minutes of this, the kestrel began to preen > actively and then began watching the ground below, which was rough grass > and scrub. Once it flew down, but returned to its perch with nothing. A f= ew > more minutes of inactivity and the kestrel took off, did a lap eastward > toward the back greens and then returned westward to hover over the green > closest to the road, getting closer and closer, before catching a vole fr= om > the gully below me on its second attempt. It then high-tailed it back to a > perch in the spruces and began to tear into the vole, fur and entrails > flying in all directions. Just before I left, it made another > half-hearted pass over the nearest green, and then settled back into the > sunlight on the sheltered side of the spruces. > > > I was a bit surprised that the kestrel was hunting on the windward side > of the golf course (-15C while I was there, with a strong NW wind), but t= he > two isolated spruces seem to provide good shelter and clearly there is fo= od > to be had in the bit of rough terrain that still exists on the southweste= rn > part of the course. And the wind was perfect for a hovering raptor. > > > This is a very engaging bird. > > > Eric > > > Eric L. 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Apparently the vibration from heavy trucks causes sm= all mammals to come to the surface in the grass beside the highway, and the= re they become easy prey. Also, if you can get it on Netflix or elsewhere, = there was a good movie released in the UK in the 1970s called Kes, about a = boy who rescued one and it became a pet. The movie was more about the boy a= nd his coming of age than the kestrel.<br><br></div>Richard<br></div><div c= lass=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at = 5:19 PM, Eric Mills E.Mills@Dal.Ca [NS-RBA] <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href= =3D"mailto:NS-RBA-noreply@yahoogroups.com" target=3D"_blank">NS-RBA-noreply= @yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote"= style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <u></u> =20