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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jalethbridge" data-source="post: 1751695" data-attributes="member: 54647">So far this the voting seems to be Kestrel 9, Peregrine 4. Add my mates' first impressons, plus a poll on my blog, and you get to Kestrel 25, Peregrine 10.It seems not straightforward.In the field looking at the bird, I thought I was looking at a Peregrine, and was very pleased as it's a rare bird here. It was way up, circled a few times, and then went off fast eastwards. I grabbed one shot before it went away. The screen on my camera is pretty poor, but when I looked at it straight afterwards I wondered if I hadn't got it wrong, based mainly what I perceived to be a long tail. As soon as I got home I blew it up, agonized over it for ages, and well, here we all are. In particular, it was the boldness of the moustache coming through at a considerable distance that had me in two minds. Although it is definitely a Kestrel on structure and, now I've done some investigation, plumage, I am surprised at quite how many people, like me in the field, said Peregrine. I worked at Canary Whary and saw Peregrine frequently. I thought I was familiar enough with them to not get it wrong, but guess what?Thanks for all the repliesJonathan</blockquote>