{"id":1926,"date":"2011-05-05T23:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1926"},"modified":"2013-11-09T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:44:07","slug":"kestrel-catches-shrew-at-sheepcote-photo-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrel-catches-shrew-at-sheepcote-photo-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrel Catches Shrew at Sheepcote (Photo Special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I took this sequence early this morning at Sheepcote Valley. The light was poor, and there was a hint of rain in the air. The sighting though was one of the best I&#39;ve had of a kestrel with prey. This greatly truncated photo sequence begins with the kestrel emerging from the undergrowth with the unlucky shrew firmly in its grip.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110430.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110431.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110440.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The kestrel (a male) flew about 100 yards with its catch and came down on an open path.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110494.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I crouched down and settled to watch. For those interested in the technical details, the camera was set at ISO 800 on manual mode at f\/7.1 and the shutter varying between 1\/250s and 1\/320s. The following shots are a somewhat visceral, so turn away now if you don&#39;t like such things. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110520.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110554.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110571.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110594.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110601.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/kestrel_0505110607.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The complete sequence from first to final shot lasted some 7 minutes. The kestrel was unusually bold, perhaps particularly ravenous (first meal of the day?) and not only ignored me but also a walker who had to circle around it. <\/p>\n<p>I also shot some video which I&#39;ll edit and upload over the next couple of days.<br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS 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],"tags":[1152,1131,584],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-kestrel","tag-prey","tag-shrew","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","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=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}