 Wild About Britain
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Jonners
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: April 2009
Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Posts: 1,330
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Tue February 28, 2012 5:43pm
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Certainly looks like a Kestrel, and it looks as though it was hovering. They are the bird of prey that you will regularly see hovering as they hunt for prey (windhover is a country name for them). Other birds (Buzzard and Great Grey Shrike, I can think of) will very occasionally hover as the hunt for food, but Kestrels are the masters, and if the wind is strong they don't even appear to work to hard to hover, hardly appearing to be flapping their wings, but just suspended in the air.
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Kenneth Baldwin
Officer of the Wild Empire
Registered: January 2012
Location: Dorset, on Hengistbury Head
Posts: 736
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Wed February 29, 2012 4:16am
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They are quite common down here. There is a pair, for example, in Christchurch Priory that hunt on Hengistbury Head and along the cliffs above the beaches.
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WildlifeWatcher
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: February 2012
Posts: 1,605
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Sat March 10, 2012 2:38pm
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100% Kestrel.
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Kenneth Baldwin
Officer of the Wild Empire
Registered: January 2012
Location: Dorset, on Hengistbury Head
Posts: 736
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Sat March 10, 2012 3:28pm
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Thank you
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