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American Kestrel with Cricket
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American Kestrel with Cricket (Falco sparverius)

This is a follow up to an earlier photo of the [URL=https://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/614214]Kestrel in flight[/URL]. About 14 seconds later (ok, pretty exactly 14 seconds later), he landed back on his bush with this meal. Probably a Jerusalem Cricket from the color.

This is a 7.6x crop at 600mm, so effectively 4560mm, at 1/2000, f/8, ISO 400.
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Location
Long Marine Lab, Santa Cruz, CA
Date taken
Nov 17, 2018
Scientific name
Falco sparverius
Equipment used
Nikon d850, Tamron 150-600 G2, monopod
KC Foggin
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Heck, that won't fill him up for long ;)

A lovely closeup of this feasting Kestrel Marc!
 

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