kestrel's lunch (1 Viewer)

[gordon g]

Yesterday I saw a male kestrel repeatedly catching dragonflies in short flights from a fence post - successfully caught them both on the wing and on the ground. He even mantled over one of them! Neither I or the others in the hide had ever seen a kestrel hunting dragonflies before. Is this unusual or have we just been unobservant?

 

[stevetb]

they are very adaptive. they are known to catch insects on the wing and also flush out small birds like a sparrowhawk.