Kestrels are one of my favorite birds. I love them so much, “Kestrel” became the name of a beautiful buckskin filly back in 2007 when I started documenting the Spring Creek Basin herd.
Bird photographers will wince at these blurry images of the gorgeous little (female?) falcon I photographed the other day in the basin, while hanging out with a band, but I’ve been seeing more of them, soaring over the budding greasewood and shadscale and newly growing grasses, that I thought they’d serve my purpose of *celebrating wild* very well, indeed.
“The American kestrel, also called the sparrow hawk, is the smallest and most common falcon in North America,” according to Wikipedia. All About Birds says they’re “North America’s littlest falcon” and “pack a predator’s fierce intensity into its small body. It’s one of the most colorful of all raptors.”
And because no post about kestrels is complete without Kestrel …
… From a wonderful shared visit with a friend a couple of lovely evenings ago. 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 