Now that the Kestrel chick has taken wing and left the confines of the nest forever, let's have a look back over how she's changed along the way. Here's how she -- or one of her siblings -- looked when freshly hatched and little more than a bundle of grey fluff and a wide-open beak. …
What does a rapidly growing Kestrel chick do when the day is hot and the parents have been ferrying an ample supply of lizards and bugs to consume? Later in the day, it's hard not to feel a little sleepy. And they say it's healthy to sneak in the odd nap in the afternoon, right? …
Let's take a break from the sadder aspects of the Kestrels' struggle to raise their offspring at the Block of Flats and have a look at something common to all living things' drive to survive: food. The wise scholars at Wikipedia tell us that the Nankeen Kestrel's "Diet is varied, with a large number of …
Well this is not really going the way I had imagined or indeed hoped it would. I'd envisioned an account of the dedicated Kestrel parents striving to raise three vigorous offspring; that idea took a dent when the third and presumably weakest chick disappeared from the nest. And today there's no point sugar-coating it: when …
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