Kestrel pics and clip from the weekend trip (my sister looking at digiscope).....paddled out to Bobcat Meadow....at Chapel Bridge, sighted Merganser Pair about to slide in the current under the Bridge...hurried down to Butterfly Flat and got a couple pics as they went by....followed Mergansers past Creek's End with the binocs...thought Mergansers might go into the Creek, but they continued downriver....and I continued upriver along the Merced, and sat a long while at the Woodpecker Tree...one Acorn Woodpecker for company.... quiet....could hear Redwing Blackbird calling across the Meadow in the Elms....circled around, and when I got there, encountered two Bird Watchers looking for White Headed Woodpeckers.....'by the Deer House (Old House)'....apparently the Valley is where Bird Watchers come to see White Headed Woodpeckers and fill out their sighting lists...think I have clip of White at Chapel Bridge from last week...had a little bit of a red on its head, and have been meaning to check the books....time, and returned to the Cabin....on the short way to work, stopped to talk with neighbor, the conversation about another Bald Eagle Report from yesterday...'right overhead'....and to go with the talk, I looked up, and wayway high right overhead was Big Wings!!...but looks to be Redtail Hawk...have to check that too...not much to go on...cloudygrey overhead during the walk...warm...began to sprinkle at work...and rain at lunch...and 'cats and doggers' after work....but most of this storm looks to be South of the Valley...this on the news....in the Tower with Kestrel on Top pic, it's hard to discern the drop off from the Bluff....we went to the Bluff to see the Kestrels...plural!...once Monday evening, and twice Tuesday...morning and evening....the Bluff is about a hundred fifty feet above the Kern River, and looks out over homes and an oil field and the Kern River...popular place for strolls and jogs...my sister emailed me some Kestrel pics, and on the visit I was eager to seem them...took all the gear!!....have some more, though not enough time, and very difficult light, and forgetting the digi bracket, made taking the pics and clips problematic...but it was very cool to just see Kestrels...lots of them flying about and they call everytime they fly...perching in Palms and some young leafless landscape Trees...I dont know the names of Trees in city environs!....anyway, one Kestrel was perched atop the power line tower....only about a third of its height can be seen....just beyond the use trail in the pic...the brown dirt path...is the drop off...and the Trees along the Kern below....I'm trying to explain what looks all flat, and isn't!....more pics and clips from Hawk Bluff tomorrow!!....Bird Watcher reported Red Shoulder Hawk 'at the Golf Course'....hmmph...it is a male White Woodpecker that I have the clip of...for sometime...here's link to bit on White Headed Woodpeckers:
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