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YSAmbHQ --089e01493c7cb3b967050c2ea3f9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/apr/01/windhover-gerard-man= ley-hopkins Sonnet on a pre-motorway windhover Nick On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Eric Mills <E.Mills@dal.ca> wrote: > I agree about the motorways. I think of them as the motorway-median > falcon > > > E. > ------------------------------ > *From:* naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca <naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca> on > behalf of Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com> > *Sent:* January-08-15 8:26 PM > *To:* NatureNS > *Subject:* [NatureNS] Re: [NS-RBA] Eurasian Kestrel behaviour > > In England they are very common. The easiest way to see them is simply > to drive along the motorways. They hover over the verges alongside the > highway. Apparently the vibration from heavy trucks causes small mammals = to > come to the surface in the grass beside the highway, and there they becom= e > easy prey. Also, if you can get it on Netflix or elsewhere, there was a > good movie released in the UK in the 1970s called Kes, about a boy who > rescued one and it became a pet. The movie was more about the boy and his > coming of age than the kestrel. > > Richard > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Eric Mills E.Mills@Dal.Ca [NS-RBA] < > NS-RBA-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > >> >> >> I had the opportunity to watch the Hartlen's Point Eurasian Kestrel in >> action for a couple of hours around mid day today from a vantage point >> along the road not far from the golf course gate. To be honest, there wa= s >> more inaction than action, but that is true of many larger birds, and th= is >> one was no exception. >> >> >> The kestrel arrived and perched in the spruces just NW of the enclosure >> around the Hartlen's Point golf course club house. It was hard to spot a= t >> first, but was evident without binoculars as a light spot against >> the spruce branches. I suspect that it had been making sallies from that >> area all morning. It was soon joined by a crow that seemed to be more >> curious than aggressive, although occasionally it made a small movement >> toward the kestrel, which shifted position once or twice in response. >> Mainly however, the two remained about a meter apart, bill toward bill, = for >> about an hour. Then the crow seemed to tire of the watch over the kestre= l >> and flew off. Within a few minutes of this, the kestrel began to preen >> actively and then began watching the ground below, which was rough grass >> and scrub. Once it flew down, but returned to its perch with nothing. A = few >> more minutes of inactivity and the kestrel took off, did a lap eastward >> toward the back greens and then returned westward to hover over the gree= n >> closest to the road, getting closer and closer, before catching a vole f= rom >> the gully below me on its second attempt. It then high-tailed it back to= a >> perch in the spruces and began to tear into the vole, fur and entrails >> flying in all directions. Just before I left, it made another >> half-hearted pass over the nearest green, and then settled back into the >> sunlight on the sheltered side of the spruces. >> >> >> I was a bit surprised that the kestrel was hunting on the windward side >> of the golf course (-15C while I was there, with a strong NW wind), but = the >> two isolated spruces seem to provide good shelter and clearly there is f= ood >> to be had in the bit of rough terrain that still exists on the southwest= ern >> part of the course. And the wind was perfect for a hovering raptor. >> >> >> This is a very engaging bird. >> >> >> Eric >> >> >> Eric L. 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