To see them hovering is just amazing; I live in the Sonoran Desert (in AZ) and we have kestrels here-- it's funny to look up and see something that *should* be a pigeon by its size-- and suddenly it drops into a raptor's dive and takes out a smaller bird. Beautiful, fierce things!
I saw Kestrals (or a cousin) outside Amsterdam in the fields. The second it stopped moving in the air, I thought I saw a glitch in the Matrix. It's truly uncanny.
@@hipbubble7685although it's not technically a Kestrel there is a falcon called a Kestrel in North America. Miss named and hasn't been renamed since it was discovered to be unrelated to the actual Kestrels.
I've been privileged to have seen one of these Kestrels in the wild for the very first time and they are truly an amazing & magnificent bird. Majestic, wonderful & silent, and most of all a beautiful example of nature, thank you so much for this video :)
Coolest thing about this is that once they're fixed on a certain spot, their head will stay in the same spot to focus, while the rest of their body keeps adjusting to the wind.
Amazing skill and reflects. Technically he is not hovering. He is gliding at the exact same speed as the headwind he encounters. And he is getting lift from the wind as well, which must have encountered a tall obstacle below and is therefore not parallel with the ground but actually heading up. (That's why seagulls and hang gliders hang out over cliffs near the ocean.
So cute. I’m from Morocco, Rabat, and always on the lookout for this bird. It leaves in cities, and has this typical way of changing direction as if it were a robot.
The images with the kestrel hovering, shot from below, with sunlight through the wings, magical! And, pretty interesting, seeing how they actually spread the feather out to control lift...wonderful little 'air cats' ;-)
Everyone complimenting the guy who just recorded them... meanwhile these guys are hovering in rigorous winds without their heads moving so much as a millimeter.
There's so many of these where i live, i still just stand and watch them in disbelief. Even with all our technology we couldn't make something the size of a bird fly perfectly still in empty space, they're amazing animals
Amazing. I always loved watching it in the wild. I must admit that I tried to take such the shots through years but never had enough zoom nor stabilization. And as the other viewers asked these shots seem like incomplete without the original soundtrack. Thanks for sharing Paul. pb
I live in Hamilton Ontario Canada and my apartment has winter nest of peregrine falcon cause it's been week that I've seen her everyday I live 16 floors up and seen her go for pigeon... wow
In 2012 I shifted with my family to our new house that was in an isolated area.once a day i was on terris and i saw this bird i was surprised to see how its hovering coz i didnt see this bird before.firstly i thought its an eagle.then after few days my uncle visited to our home for lunch after lunch we went to terris,then i saw again this bird.and i asked my uncle about this bird.then he told me.but for 2,3 years i havent seen this bird.dont know what happend.
Thank you for such a beautifull glimpse of my favourite cliff top bird. thank you for not spoiling it with a sound track the waves and gulls are how it should be. A symbl of freedom in turbulent times.
My brother in law has some amazing photographs of a Kestrel that nests on The Island in St Ives. My husbsnd and I once saw one hunting over the cliffs near Godrevy too...just hovering in mid air ... it was truly amazing!
How can you not believe in Allah after seeing this bird and how it hovers? "This is Allah’s creation. Now show Me what those ˹gods˺ other than Him have created. In fact, the wrongdoers are clearly astray." Surah 31 Verse 11
"Have they not seen the birds above them, spreading and folding their wings? None holds them up except the Most Compassionate. Indeed, He is All-Seeing of everything. " Al Quran chapter 67 verse 19 Glory Be to Allah!
“I sentence you to death, for the murder of this innocent mouse...and no hovering so the rope goes slack. I suppose the most humane way to execute a bird of prey would be death by firing squad...”
I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there! How he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstacy! Then off, off forth on swing As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend; the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind.
