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Kestrels are lovely, personable little falcons that can be found throughout much of North America (as well as most of South America). Their only faults are that they are fairly shy and difficult to photograph, and when they do permit close approach they're rarely perched on anything other than power lines or metal fence posts (or sometimes wooden fence posts if I'm lucky). These images show both the colorful males and the overall rusty-brown females, which lack the males' blue-gray wings and There considerable variation in the amount of spotting or streaking on the underside (I'm not sure if this is age-related). The photos were taken in many places; California locations include the San Jacinto Wildlife Area near Riverside, coastal Orange County, Pebble Beach, and Palm Desert; other images were made on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, and in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. |
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