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11-06-2005, 09:38 AM
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| | | Food For Thought
Thursday evening I witnessed an attack on a pipisrelle bat I was listening to
by what I am sure was a local Kestrel .
The time was around 21:55 there were a few birds still foraging is this unusual
Ican almost set my watch by the bats,and none of the owls could be this acrobatic |
11-06-2005, 06:07 PM
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| | | Certainly very possible that it was a Kestrel as bats often make it on to their menu of small mammals. |
13-06-2005, 08:57 AM
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| | | Nightshade,
Whilst not impugning your bird identification skills, could it have been a Hobby, rather than a Kestrel? Known to catch Noctules at dusk. No mention that I can see in BWP of bats as prey of Kestrel.
henrya |
13-06-2005, 05:14 PM
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| | | Henrya
Hobbies are about (elm farm) so i am informed ,but i have only seen 1 which was little bigger than the swifts it was hunting.
Change Kestrel for bird of prey it was still an exciting moment | |
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