Ooops, too busy to post this yesterday, but a/the American Kestrel pair has arrived on Mt Pleasant as of Wednesday afternoon. While I was on my afternoon walk, I was thinking about how it must be time for them to return by now, when a falcon-winged bird flew across the road in front of me. My heart leaped, but no - silly me - it was a Killdeer! But on the way home, I saw an actual male kestrel take flight, carrying some prey, and wing its way over the fields toward the ex-sheep-barn, at which point it began calling. And there perched on a telephone pole, was the female. Maybe the prey was an early courtship offering?
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