American Kestrel migration is in progress. There is anecdotal information that they coincide with dragonfly migration, especially the Common Green Darner and Black Saddlebags ( Anax junius and Tramea lacerate; other species migrate as well). With kestrels, not all migrate but they do disperse. The females will begin settling into winter hunting territories which are quite a bit larger and less popular than those the males end up with. By this time young should have moved on.
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