\u00a01\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThis image was taken just after the sun came up on a cold morning a few months ago so the light is warm and the falcon is fluffed up to conserve heat.\u00a0 His perch is dormant rabbitbrush.\u00a0 When kestrels erect their scapulars like this it often looks like they’re wearing shoulder pads.<\/p>\n
I’m still concerned about our kestrels this spring.\u00a0 I’m seeing fewer of them than usual for this\u00a0time of year\u00a0and hearing reports of a significant number of unused nest boxes and dead kestrels found in some of those boxes (apparent winter-kills).\u00a0 It was an unusually\u00a0harsh winter, so perhaps it’s just that more of them than usual\u00a0went south for the worst of it and are still straggling in.<\/p>\n
Hope so…<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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Just a simple shot of a handsome little male American Kestrel this morning.<\/p>\n
I’m still concerned about our kestrels this spring. I’m seeing fewer of them than usual for this time of year and hearing reports of a significant number of unused nest boxes and dead kestrels found in some of those boxes (apparent winter-kills). <\/p>\n
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