kestrals

[leedetek 9]

hi everyone ,just wondering have any of you falconry people ever known of a kestral taking anything bigger than voles and mice ? i was walking the dogs out yesterday with my sons and saw a kestral take a baby rabbitt, i wasn t seeing things because we found the bunny where it flew up from. thanks.

[jasper65 6]

A pal had a male Kestrel a good few years back flying it on a playing field when it Ignored him completely and dropped low skimming the ground to the end of the field and litteraly bound to a Magpie near the back fence, it didn't hold it for long but it had the balls to go for it.....

 

I would think the poor old Kestrels have found it hard over this winter and had to turn their attention to other quarry...

 

Jasper

[andyfalconer 0]

A pal had a male Kestrel a good few years back flying it on a playing field when it Ignored him completely and dropped low skimming the ground to the end of the field and litteraly bound to a Magpie near the back fence, it didn't hold it for long but it had the balls to go for it.....

 

I would think the poor old Kestrels have found it hard over this winter and had to turn their attention to other quarry...

 

Jasper

i take magpie and starlings every season with my female.

[Foxy09 3]

A pal had a male Kestrel a good few years back flying it on a playing field when it Ignored him completely and dropped low skimming the ground to the end of the field and litteraly bound to a Magpie near the back fence, it didn't hold it for long but it had the balls to go for it.....

 

I would think the poor old Kestrels have found it hard over this winter and had to turn their attention to other quarry...

 

Jasper

i take magpie and starlings every season with my female.

 

Any photos??

[danny boi 0]

i was sat one day waiting to enter the country estate were i teach kayaking sometimes an saw a wood pigeon sat on a fence post, a female kestrel nailed it on the post but it sat tight an after about 30 seconds of flapping and squaking the kestrel gave up as it was a large woody.