{"id":1436,"date":"2009-07-19T01:07:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T00:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1436"},"modified":"2013-11-13T21:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:42:55","slug":"anyone-for-cricket-kestrel-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/anyone-for-cricket-kestrel-special\/","title":{"rendered":"“Anyone for cricket?” (kestrel special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

While England were ripping into the Australian bowlers this afternoon I ventured out to see the local kestrels. Cricket seemed to be on their minds as well. Or to be more precise, on their menu…
<\/span> Kestrel hovering<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Kestrel dropping low<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Kestrel with bush cricket<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Flying with cricket<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Resting with cricket (in right claw)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Snacking on the wing<\/span><\/p>\n

At one stage I was watching three kestrels hunting in the same part of the valley. The crickets were taking a relative hammering. This young(?) kestrel flew overhead chasing after an adult (with cricket). It caught my attention by its muted call and its distinctive facial markings. I'm not sufficiently familiar with their development to know for certain that this is a young bird, but its demeanour and slightly rounder face (when seen head on) suggests (to me at least) that it is.
<\/span> Young kestrel<\/span><\/p>\n

The voles may have thought their luck was in, but luck only takes you so far. This kestrel is carrying a vole.
<\/span> Kestrel with vole<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Kestrel with vole<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the garden this evening, things were equally frenetic. The bold vixen passed through (I was pleased to see that her eye is no worse), and three hedgehogs (two adults and a juvenile) were out feeding. The wood mouse also clambered down the peanut feeder.
<\/span> One of the adult hedgehogs<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> The little hedgehog<\/span>
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: the kestrels were all photographed with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. The hedgehogs were photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens.<\/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":[990,1048,282],"tags":[435,1168,1152],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-cricket-insects-2","category-hedgehog","tag-cricket","tag-hedgehog","tag-kestrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","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=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}