The Kestrels have continued to offer all kinds of photography opportunity in the last few weeks, and we'll get to all that at some point, but for now let's have a look at a bit of a phenomenon from the good old Block of Flats. In short, I was on an errand in the car …
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. …
Time is passing and it's not always possible to be at the nest when significant things happen. That's particularly true of late, so it was no surprise to happen by the Block of Flats the other day to find that our chick had taken wing! It had been obvious that this was on the cards, …
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? …
When I took a quick look on Monday, the chick had come out of the hole in the tree: This is just what the two chicks from 2023 did: This is a major development and means our little sprout will soon be on the wing. It's been getting too big for the hole it calls …
While the kestrels' chick continues to grow at a fantastic rate, I wouldn't want to give the impression that my lens isn't occasionally focused elsewhere. Travelling to and from the nest site, there's a plethora of other wildlife to be seen -- a bonus, as it wouldn't be seen without the kestrel obsession to drive …
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 …
Recently we had a couple of days' rain and wind which prevented me from visiting the nest site. I figured it would be a good thing to give the poor harassed parents a break from my sticky beaking (pun totally intended). But when yesterday dawned beautiful and clear, I hotfooted it up there to have …
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