This years kestrel brood (1 Viewer)

[DBK]

If they breed again next year I suggest you don't climb up to the nest. Apart from being against the law, assuming you don't have a permit to do it, the activity is likely to attract the attention of the local predators and scavengers. The parents for example might have been displaying while you were near the nest and that would have been like a beacon to a buzzard. Or they might just have wondered what the ladder was for and why someone was climbing up into the tree. Buzzards are not the brightest of birds but they aren't daft when it comes to finding food.

 

[Yorick]

We see it this bird every day, hovering near our villa. But lately it's started to hover right next to us. It's amazing how it stays so still in the strong winds.

But I've no idea what it is. Ideas ?

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[TheAleMan]

We see it this bird every day, hovering near our villa. But lately it's started to hover right next to us. It's amazing how it stays so still in the strong winds.

But I've no idea what it is. Ideas ?

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Kestrel for sure.

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[DBK]

We see it this bird every day, hovering near our villa. But lately it's started to hover right next to us. It's amazing how it stays so still in the strong winds.

But I've no idea what it is. Ideas ?

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You have your own kestrel sub-species where you live, Falco tinnunculus dacotiae found only on Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and a few surrounding islets. Paler on the back and more spotted on the breast than "our" kestrels.

 

[Scotch mist]

Buzzard just doing it's job. There would have been other Kestrel nests in the area that were more productive and make up for this shortfall.

your probably rite but

If they breed again next year I suggest you don't climb up to the nest. Apart from being against the law, assuming you don't have a permit to do it, the activity is likely to attract the attention of the local predators and scavengers. The parents for example might have been displaying while you were near the nest and that would have been like a beacon to a buzzard. Or they might just have wondered what the ladder was for and why someone was climbing up into the tree. Buzzards are not the brightest of birds but they aren't daft when it comes to finding food.

the kestrels are in and out the nest 20 times a day once the chicks are born , buzzards soar high above watching this and that’s how they find there prey , I wouldn’t think buzzards follow humans or ladders looking for nests , It’s not the first time the buzzards have eaten my young kestrels, I seen one eating a fully feathered kestrel, i Now think it was probably a young bird on its first flight