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Had a fantastic kestrel experience today. We were walking down a relatively busy path towards Teddington Lock from Ham. A kestrel cruised over and perched on top of a bare tree.
A few of us stopped and watched a while, thinking it was just chilling. Then suddenly it swooped down, just over my partner's head and divided into the long grass off the side of the path. I heard a tiny squeak, and off it climbed. Couldn't see if it had got its mouse but the yelp suggested it had something for dinner.
We'd already been treated to some good cormorant action down by the river - diving, skimming along flying and wing drying, plus a cold looking heron, but this was the icing on the cake.