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Thank you all for your comments, I'm really glad you like it. Don't worry, I'll post other photos soon, but for now nothing interesting is going on. Seems that other 2 eggs won't hatch. Mother can't take care of babies and eggs in same time, because eggs and children require different care.
I forget to tell you, in block of flats where I live, there's another nest of kestrels around emergency stairway on 11. floor on balcony (it's same kind of balcony as in my flat, but you can get there only from stairway inside of building, these balcons are on every floor). The nest is...well...pigeons used to live there and there's mess after them. Today I looked there and when mother flies away (she doesn't know me, so she's afraid of me), I saw something wonderful - FOUR babies of kestrel were lying in pigeons excrements  but they were very lovely, small and looked healthy.
Lot of pigeons live around in city and I noticed, that my kestrel sometimes feeds chicks with chick of pigeon, not with mouse.
Rodney O wrote:
Excellent photos. Quite a nice opportunity. I would guess that by now the parents have acepted your role as photographer & guardian?
But tell me how did you get close enough to get those shots with a 50mm lens?
I can walk around on balcony without scarring her. She's not afraid of me anymore, sometimes I can even touch her...a little...photos were taken from distance of around 0,5metre, 50/1,4 lens has min. focus distance 45cm and sometimes I had to go further to get them in focus
Guia
Thank you for your explanation, I didn't know these things.
So I'm posting a link for detailed shots - 100% crop of kestrel head, there are some very interesting details, as you described
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Edited on Jun 02, 2008 at 04:05 PM
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