A female Kestrel take to the air excitedly as she see her mate flying back into their territory with prey in the early morning sunshine.
The male heads for their well used hand-over point and lands with pinpoint accuracy.
The female is their in a flash to take the prey from the male mouth to mouth and move away in less than a second.
She removes some of the thicker hair from the back of a luckless female vole to make digesting it a bit easier for her three week old chicks.
That done she lifts the prey in her beak to keep her legs free for landing and checks that her chicks are visually responding at her tight nest site entrance.
There is something really special about taking classic 'Kestrel with Prey' shots in the early morning light around the Cornish coastline and watching them prepare it for their family before:
Breakfast is Served !!
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