{"id":1416,"date":"2009-06-15T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1416"},"modified":"2013-11-14T00:31:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T00:31:32","slug":"kestrel-chicks-picture-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrel-chicks-picture-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrel Chicks (picture special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I'm never sure it's a good idea to give precise locations in these instances, but the following photos were taken at a local nature reserve in Sussex. I'd gone in search of demoiselle dragonflies, but before we made it to the ponds we came across one of the nesting boxes. There were four young kestrels skipping in and out, and over a period of time we were rewarded with the adult male coming in twice with prey. The first time the chicks disappeared into the box with it. On the second feeding, the largest of the chicks kept the kill (a bank vole by the look of it) to itself.<\/p>\n

This is a small selection of photos. There are more over on my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"kestrelFirst there was one<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelKestrel chick in profile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelThen two more appeared<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelThree's a crowd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelFour young kestrels<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelThe adult is overhead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelDelivering the food<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelOff hunting again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelSecond delivery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelThe handover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelThe handover continues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelThe greedy chick doesn't share this time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"kestrelTwo chicks waiting for Papa!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

All the shots were taken from a safe distance away, and many are heavily cropped. I also took some video which has a fairly lengthy feeding sequence near the end. It's long (8 minutes approx).<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all shots were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The video was taken with the Sony Handycam DCR SX30, supported on a monopod.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990],"tags":[424,1152,527],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-chicks","tag-kestrel","tag-raptors","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}