{"id":24969,"date":"2016-05-03T23:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=24969"},"modified":"2016-05-03T23:31:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:31:15","slug":"woods-mill-kestrels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/woods-mill-kestrels-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Woods Mill Kestrels"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long time since I’ve featured kestrels, so this makes a nice break from those boring short-eared owls (only joking!). I took this sequence at Woods Mill<\/a>, the headquarters of Sussex Wildlife Trust. The photos show what I assume is a juvenile being provided with a tasty vole by an adult male. The juvenile then flies off with the treat.<\/p>\n

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Adult perches on the roof of the nest box. The juvenile gets active.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Getting a better look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The juvenile makes a short hop to the roof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lunch changes hand (or beak)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And it’s the perfect kestrel take-away!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As for the owls… this is how boring they are \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

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Close-up of a short-eared owl at Sheepcote Valley, Brighton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long time since I’ve featured kestrels, so this makes a nice break from those boring short-eared owls (only joking!). I took this sequence at Woods Mill, the headquarters of Sussex Wildlife Trust. The photos show what I assume is a juvenile being provided with a tasty vole by an adult male. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1219,1221],"tags":[1152,850,426],"class_list":["post-24969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-kestrel","category-owl","tag-kestrel","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-woods-mill","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24969","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=24969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}