{"id":1237,"date":"2008-10-31T00:10:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T00:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1237"},"modified":"2013-11-19T00:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:22:03","slug":"long-distance-kestrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/long-distance-kestrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Long distance kestrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

It's been a quiet week for photographs, and cold. There were goldfinches in the garden this morning (a relatively rare sighting, but not as rare as seeing a heron fly over the garden at the weekend). No photos of either of those, but I did take the camera out at lunchtime and headed to one of the nearby fields. In the distance a kestrel was hovering over the trees.<\/p>\n

Distant kestrel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

I kept an eye on it, and tried to get closer, but without too much luck. It moved lower in the air and hovered briefly, before perching for a few moments.<\/p>\n

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I thought my luck was in when it flew closer, and circled overhead. <\/p>\n

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It was a brief moment. The kestrel wasn't the only bird around. The trees where it had been hunting are frequented by various of the local corvids and although it wasn't too disturbed by the aerial antics of the jackdaws, it thought better of hanging around when a rook decided to intervene.<\/p>\n

Rook chasing kestrel<\/span><\/a>
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Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990],"tags":[1152,46],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-kestrel","tag-rook","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t