{"id":871,"date":"2007-06-17T20:06:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/871"},"modified":"2013-11-24T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T21:56:53","slug":"kestrel-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/kestrel-feeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Kestrel feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We were about 400 yards from the end of a five mile walk through the Downs today when we came across a lone kestrel perched on a fence post. We approached slowly. It flew down to post further along. This happened a couple of times, but each time I managed to get a little closer. What follows comes with a caution if you&#39;re squeamish. This is just a small selection. <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076337.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Kestrel on a fence post<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076341.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">It darted down on to the path ahead of us. It had something at its feet.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076348.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">It looked up. I froze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076357_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">And then to my astonishment it started to feed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076359.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">I think the prey may be a mouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076363_b.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Not easy to tell what it has though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076368.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Whatever it is, it certainly stretches&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076369.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Finishing off&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kestrel_1706076371.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">And away<\/span><\/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],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","tag-kestrel","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}