Kestrels on Sunday

She sees something down there.

Something with a wing and bit of gristle: looks like some previous prey was cached and then retrieved. Not atypical behavior this time of year, when the female is eating like crazy to build up the energy to create eggs.

Across the street was this male. Later both birds were up on this antenna, but I observed no mating. There was a nest near here two years ago.

The next day, 15 blocks away. I don’t think this is the same pair.

I’m not censoring here: this was an unsuccessful mating attempt. The female was not into it.

But she did want her perch back after another attempt got her to fly off.