Raptor Wednesday

Sightings of American Kestrels are starting to pick up. Male above at Green-Wood’s neogothic gate giving the Monk Parakeets something to talk about.

I’ve looked up at the various spires of this big Greek Orthodox church in Bay Ridge every time I’ve walked by, but this past weekend was the first time I’d seen a kestrel up there. Female.

Presumably a different female, unless she followed me home, on the solar building; viewed from the Kestrel Lookout also known as our apartment.