Raptor Wednesday

Well, it wasn’t exactly the Feast of the Seven Fishes, but this male Kestrel grabbed a lizard off the ground and dispatched it like an appetizer and then three minutes later

Caught a Dark-eyed Junco.

I was suprised that the lizard was out and about. Big mistake, in retrospect. There was still some snow on the ground from the storm several days earlier.

I measure the distance the Kestrel flew to snag the Junco at about 350 ft. Took off from up here and returned to begin plucking and eating.