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Eurasian Kestrel - Netherlands / Beleef de Lente
dupre501:
If you check out the clip "13 jun 2014 Ringen" you can see one of the chicks being banded.
They put a clear barrier to the outside then access the chicks. At the end you can see one of the parents outside seperated from the chicks by the clear barrier.
susha:
--- Quote from: susha on June 13, 2014, 16:05 ---Holy Moly!! I haven't looked at these guys since the weekend and they've suddenly gotten their big bird feathers! :o
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I posted this quickly from work and didn't specify that it was the wee Kestrals I was talking about ::)
sparkster:
--- Quote from: birdcamfan on June 13, 2014, 14:34 ---these guys have fledged and there are some clips of them zipping around the nest box. On the same Beleef de Lente site, the kestrels cam has 6 larges chicks that will likely fledge soon, very cute http://www.beleefdelente.nl/vogel/torenvalk
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They are very adept at flying and landing. I notice, too, that there are usually at least a couple or maybe all of them back in the nest box at night. I wonder if it is because it is the only tall structure around? I don't recall that the Manitoba birds return to the nest box very often after they fledge.
The kestrels are a hoot, grabbing food and swallowing it whole (with a sand lizard tail hanging out of a beak ;D), and scooting backwards around the nest. And it is interesting to watch "Ma" defend the nest by fluffing out her feathers when the crows bother them. She looks quite fierce.
Kinderchick:
Wow! They are big! :o All 4 seem to have returned to the nest box for the night. 3 are sleeping and 1 is acting as a night watchman, I guess. LOL! ;)
susha:
Holy Moly!! I haven't looked at these guys since the weekend and they've suddenly gotten their big bird feathers! :o
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