All five kestrel chicks are growing fast under the care of their doting parents.
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Doting kestrel parents
The male works hard to find food for his hungry family and has been bringing in a wide variety of prey, from small rats to lizards. It is the female's job to tear this up into tiny morsels to feed the chicks.
A fair feeder
The female kestrel is very fair, distributing a little bit to each one in turn. If there are any bits that are too big she eats them herself and where a prey item is too big to finish in one go she caches the rest at the back of the nest for another day - like a food larder. Watch her pluck a blackbird ready for her chicks - the nest quickly gets carpeted in fine blackbird feathers.
Growing kestrel chicks
Notice how fast the chicks grow from tiny, helpless creatures unable to hold up their heads to a noisy rabble squabbling over food by the time they are just one week old!
A caring and fierce mum
The kestrel mum is so attentive. Watch as she spreads her wings over her fluffy brood and envelopes them in her feathers - at one point she actually topples over!
She is still very wary of intruders, which is hardly surprising after all the attacks on the nest she endured whilst incubating, but she's a fierce defender and these chicks are set to do well.
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Music Credit: Lullaby by JVNA (RU-vid Audio Library) & www.zapsplat.com & No. 9 Esther's Waltz by Esther Abrami (RU-vid Audio Library)
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5 окт 2024
