Do Kestrels feed in flight?

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Don't know about "common" but it is regular for them and many other raptors when eating small prey (or maybe far from a perch). I once published one of my drawings of a Black-shouldered Kite eating a mouse in flight so I saw it, though they don't usually. The David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies show on TV this week had several bits of film of I think Crested Serpent Eagles & others (Bat Hawks?) eating bats in flight.......

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Hide [
Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2015 6:12 PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Do Kestrels feed in flight?

This afternoon I watched a kestrel gliding over the pasture outside Campbell park and assumed it was hunting prey below as its head was down (it was some distance away)-

Checking a snap afterwards, it looks like it was eating in flight- is this common?

 

Robin Hide