Kestrels

The Madeira outtakes

On the way to Madeira I sit next to a couple and they chat. I say ‘they’ chat, when I mean ‘the …

Arriving in the park I see a male Common Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus. I think it may have a couple of ticks on …

There’s a Kestrel at the top of the tree here in Parco della Caffarella. It’s quite a distance away, so we get …

I’m back in the UK after a trip to Italy looking for Little Owls. We didn’t see them apart from a brief …

Sunshine; warmth; the feel of spring in the air. It’s a while since I’ve felt that; and that’s also true for wildlife. …

We are driving along a dusty road in Italy with telegraph poles alongside it. Every few hundred metres is a Kestrel, or, …

Leafing through The Second Ladybird Book of British Birds and their nests I come to the page on The Kestrel: It says: …

There’s the familiar shape of a Kestrel in the treetops. I could recognise one in my sleep just from the posture. Looking …