During my today's visit to Costa Ballena, the first bird I spotted was a Kestrel. It seemed that during my whole walk I was being followed by this species, everywhere I looked I saw a male or female Kestrel sitting up a tree, a building or a post. Not that I found it annoying! The birds let me come quite close, and even came down on the ground to snatch some insects while I was very close.
They can be hard to spot when they sit in a tree because of their camouflage plumage.
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| Female Kestrel |
Focussing on the bird when it flies past trees that have a similar colour is difficult for the human eye, so it is not surprising that a camera struggles with that too, but the Canon 90D did a more than decent job here.
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| Another (male) Kestrel I noticed during my walk |
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| A female Kestrel flying by... |
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| …before perching in a palm tree |
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| Trying to spot something edible in the grass |
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| Gotcha! |
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| A male Kestrel is landing on a lighting pole with a large insect in its beak |
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| Time to eat |
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| Another male Kestrel |
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| This is a photo of the first encounter with a Kestrel this afternoon |
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| Eurasian Coot |
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| Black-headed Gull |
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| A lot of young Little Grebe |
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| Chiffchaff posing on a branch |
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| A male Blackbird collecting nesting material |
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| Black-headed Gull |
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| Greylag Goose |
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| White Wagtail |
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| White Wagtail |