Catching sight of the number of chicks in obscure dark kestrel nest sights can be a tricky business and in this case two weeks after hatching we believed there to be four at this sight but as the female was returning with prey yesterday we finally caught sight of a much smaller fifth chick in front of the other four.
With her prey delivered the female is straight back to the hunt and this time she is hovering low right over our heads.
She takes another Vole which is immediately delivered to the chicks before returning to the hunt once again
The female who is a more prolific hunter than the male repeats this exercise five times before the male in the last image posted returned with his second catch of the day
The male is known to us as 'Broken Tail ' on account of the fact that he has lost a high percentage of his tail flight feather which might have some bearing on his 'catch rate' performance
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