And a brood of young kestrels lately fledged, sail and soar along the cliff farther on, and scream as if in defiance of the wind, against which their keen wings are beating.
Now the shrill screaming of the kestrelsrises louder still, the fierce cry of the old birds mingling with the plaintive clamour of their brood.
Gurney says that Egyptian Kestrels are certainly bolder than the British, and that he has "seen one swoop at a Booted Eagle," and another "feather a Hooded Crow which ventured too near its nest.
As neighbours they had lesser kestrelsand rock-sparrows (Petronia stulta), while the roofs of the caverns were plastered with the mud nests of crag-martins.
A pair of Egyptian Vultures, and many Lesser Kestrels were seen to-day.
Dense black clouds rolled away to leeward, amidst which hovered swarms of swallows and insect-feeding birds with an outer fringe of kites, kestrels and magpies, all preying on belated locusts and coleoptera.
Some boys were up here, engaged in fishing--fishing for young kestrels in their nest above a shattered gateway.
Countless jackdaws and kestrels nestle in this cliff, as well as clouds of swifts, both Alpine and common.
Kestrels are almost common; I have constantly seen them while strolling along the road, generally two together, and once three.
Many Kestrels return to their accustomed summer haunts this month; and the Missel-thrush pairs at the beginning of it.
A great many of our Kestrelsleave us at the approach of winter when the food they like best is too hard to find.
One writer states his belief that the destruction of Kestrels and Magpies is the cause of the increase of Field Voles.
Kestrels sometimes build in trees and sometimes in towers and old buildings.
Kestrels do a sort of humble soaring in search of their food, and hobbies actually feed themselves, like swifts, on the wing.
But kestrels can be reclaimed and taught to fly to the lure in exactly the same way as the proudest peregrine or the most majestic ger.
Mice are capital food, not only for kestrels and hobbies, but for merlins and sparrow-hawks, and may be given whole to any kind of hawk by way of castings.
In fact, in the case of merlins and kestrels there is no harm in associating the two sexes, provided all occupants of the club-room are kept, as they should be, constantly provided with plenty of food.
In Australia Kestrels frequently nest in a hollow tree, but do not lay the usual white egg.
But kestrels do not always descend upon prey actually in view.
Nevertheless kestrels are common, and sparrowhawks, if not quite so numerous, are in no degree uncommon.
The number of kestrels round Kertch is something astonishing, and I almost think that with the other hawks, the blue hen harrier, kites and crows, they would almost outnumber the sparrows of the town.
Duels between kestrels and crows recurred continually, and to my surprise the crow generally had the best of it.
At almost any hour of the day, five or six kestrels might be seen quartering the fields or hovering here and there among the burrows.
For several years a pair of kestrels had lived in the valley, and had reared their young in a nest built on a ledge of rock above the Cerdyn brook and safe beyond the reach of marauding schoolboys.
The Kestrels usually leave their sleeping-places very early in the morning, and continue to sweep over the face of the country long after the shades of evening have closed in.
It is distinguished from the Kestrels by the comparative shortness of its beak and tail, and by the great variety observable in the plumage, which differs not only with the sex but according to the age of the bird.
On the larger estates the head-gamekeeper is often a man of intelligence and a sound naturalist, and owls and kestrels are not murdered, and the heron, of course, goes free.
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