Fuzzy wuzzy were five baby birds' head

June 10, 2024 1:49 PM

Kestrel live cam from Cornell Lab's Raptor Resource Project. See also the first Red-tailed Hawk fledgling to take flight this season and the female Kestrel feeding her chicks.
posted by spamandkimchi (7 comments total)

Heads! Heads plural. Not five birds with one head... Sheesh.
posted by spamandkimchi at 1:49 PM on June 10 [2 favorites]

cerbirdus
posted by phunniemee at 2:00 PM on June 10 [4 favorites]

it works for me. Love bird cams love birds but I'm terrible at identification. Sure, Robin , sparrow, black bird, Cardinal and those crafty blue Jay's whosa observed they dominate a bird feeder space in a dialectic, two move in a third eats.

This pic cracks me up.
posted by clavdivs at 2:13 PM on June 10 [1 favorite]

Robert E. Fuller's Youtube feed has some really excellent high quality footage of European Kestrel cavity nests as well as owls and more. The nest defense footage is shockingly violent. I had no idea just how tooth and nail the fighting between predator species was.
posted by srboisvert at 2:41 PM on June 10

Relevant tumblr post from my fave ex-MeFite: MOAR BABY KESTRELS
posted by Kitteh at 3:31 PM on June 10 [1 favorite]

Ooh the baby falcons at the Berkeley tower are all grown up now (juveniles have brown fronts; their mother has white), so I was in need of a new nest of birds of prey. It doesn’t hurt that kestrels are cute.
posted by nat at 10:28 PM on June 10 [1 favorite]

I'll never pass up an opportunity to plug the University of Sheffield's Peregrine Cam in threads like this, but it's a little late in the year--this spring's set of chicks have already gotten their adult feathers and started taking short practice flights, and will be leaving the nest soon.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 1:44 AM on June 11 [1 favorite]