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Old 03-21-13, 02:17 PM   #1
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Old 03-21-13, 02:32 PM   #2
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That is so cool Woooosh - thanks for sharing that! I wouldn't be surprised to see him fly right into your kitchen...
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Old 03-21-13, 04:33 PM   #3
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man that is awesome. Beautiful slow motion footage showing the wing beats as well.
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He's beautiful!
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He's beautiful!
Thanks- but that's just Mother Nature at work. Kestrels are small and are sometimes called Sparrow Hawks or "Finger Falcons" .

Not so with Coopers. We had a man drop off this Cooper who had eaten poison, got disoriented and flew into a house breaking his jaw. I had him about a month- putting dead birds in a blender and using a turkey baster to nourish him. He was very sweet and let me help him. When he started tearing whole birds apart- I took him back and released him. Amazingly he did a fly-by once to say thanks- but I haven't seen him again since. (A good thing since Coopers will eat Kestrels for a snack)



We have a sparrow repeater-trap to catch live food when there is rescue bird in the house. This guy outsmarted our trap!

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