Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus
Canon 800mm f8 for 1/1600th @ iso400
A morning out with Roy at a random location somewhere in "deepest" Manchester - a rather uninspiring piece of parkland with people walking bull terrier type dogs. That rather uninspiring venue though held a sandbank full of Sand Martins, a Kingfisher nest in a sandbank just off the path, and kestrels on the Victorian bridge.
The Kingfisher nest never reached it's full potential of turning out a batch of Kingfishers. When Roy was walking down the path one bright spring morning he noticed some activity below the nest and watched as mink climbed up the bank entered the burrow and finished off the Kingfishers ! He was so gutted by this massacre that he did not even press the shutter button.
A morning out with Roy at a random location somewhere in "deepest" Manchester - a rather uninspiring piece of parkland with people walking bull terrier type dogs. That rather uninspiring venue though held a sandbank full of Sand Martins, a Kingfisher nest in a sandbank just off the path, and kestrels on the Victorian bridge.
The Kingfisher nest never reached it's full potential of turning out a batch of Kingfishers. When Roy was walking down the path one bright spring morning he noticed some activity below the nest and watched as mink climbed up the bank entered the burrow and finished off the Kingfishers ! He was so gutted by this massacre that he did not even press the shutter button.