{"id":44714,"date":"2016-12-31T06:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=44714"},"modified":"2016-12-31T06:17:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T13:17:01","slug":"american-kestrel-with-moxie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/31\/american-kestrel-with-moxie\/","title":{"rendered":"American Kestrel With Moxie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose it&#8217;s redundant to point out a kestrel with moxie &#8211; all kestrels have moxie by definition. But this one made that fact unusually obvious.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Occasionally I recycle an older favorite\u00a0post because many current viewers have never seen it. This one was published on Feb. 16, 2012 but for this version I&#8217;ve reprocessed the image and rewritten\u00a0most of the text.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are two small bridges along the primary road into Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area. There&#8217;s a weather station tower at the second bridge\u00a0that is an obvious and desirable elevated perch for birds in a landscape almost\u00a0entirely devoid of trees. But\u00a0apparently birds on the\u00a0tower disrupt its proper functioning so two\u00a0plastic Great Horned Owls have been mounted at the top of the tower in an obvious attempt to scare birds off and keep them from perching there.<\/p>\n<p>The plastic owls are so large and\u00a0prominent that many of us refer to that bridge as the &#8220;owl bridge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44715\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/31\/american-kestrel-with-moxie\/american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"711,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44715\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley\" width=\"711\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley.jpg 711w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/american-kestrel-2237b-ron-dudley-400x506.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><em><strong>\u00a01\/1250, f\/10, Canon 7D,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM + EF 1.4 II Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>But kestrels\u00a0don&#8217;t give a hoot about those\u00a0phony owls. In fact they provide a favorite perch for these\u00a0fearless little falcons. In all my\u00a0years at Farmington, kestrels are just\u00a0about the only species\u00a0I&#8217;ve\u00a0noticed perching on them. I&#8217;d wager that virtually all of the &#8220;whitewash&#8221; dripping down this owl scarecrow belongs to <em>Falco sparvarius.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always admired these courageous little falcons for their pluck and wondered, only slightly in jest, if they might have a bit of a Napoleon complex.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re truly a bird with <em>cojones<\/em> \u2013 both sexes.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose it&#8217;s redundant to point out a kestrel with moxie &#8211; all kestrels have moxie by definition. 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