Four Kestrels

I’ve seen this male American Kestrel on this nearby chimney pot three weekends in a row, with a couple of sightings in-between. This was last Saturday.

Three hours later, the bird was a block away on the edge of Sunset Park, at 41st and 5th, and I was a lot closer.

Half an hour after that, I was the 50s on 6th Avenue. And so was this bird. (On Thursday, I found this lightly marked male again, this time with a female on the same building: nesting to come? See yesterday’s post.)

The next day at 34th and 5th, this very spotty individual was atop a tree.

A few hours later, on the now-replaced cross on the Old Chapel in Green-Wood, around 25th & 6th if the grid ran through the cemetery, was our old friend with the clear russet bib.

This is his territory. Last year, he was mating atop this perch by the end of February. This year, I saw him checking out the old nest site on February 25th.