Sunday, September 25, 2016

Nine American Kestrels at the Wastewater


 American Kestrel

 Same bird as above.  I found this one on the north side.

 I normally would not include pictures of this poor quality
but it was fun to watch the kestrel eat a bug while on the wing.
This was over the rapid infiltration cells.

 In this picture you can see a leg from the bug dropping to
the ground.

Here again the picture is not real good.  If you look closely,
you can see what appears to be a tether hanging from its leg.
This kestrel was at Swanson and White Roads.

- Charlie DeWitt

1 comment:

Ric said...

Charlie, if you need to apologize for the quality of your photos, I need to be arrested for posting mine. Without these images, how many of us would ever see the leg of a bug falling off as it's eaten by a flying kestrel? Thanks!

And let's hope that tether doesn't cost him his life someday.