2nd July

I wasn’t working today, but as the light was superb first thing I thought I would check on the Little Owls and the Kestrels on Primrose Hill.

I spotted one of the owlets high up in an Ash tree some 60 metres away (a cropped photo at the same distance below).

Using a clump of trees on the ridge that runs through area 25 I was gradually able to approach a few metres at a time, eventually I was able to get some reasonable shots.

Concentrating on getting pictures of this bird I thought that when he/she looked up it was likely to be a pesky Magpies or something similar. I was wrong, one of his siblings had flown in and landed just above, how considerate.

The picture below captured the moment when the young hiss.

As I approached area 48 the Kestrel site, three juveniles flew from the open area into the trees by the nest site. If I had been 5 minutes earlier I would have got the flight shots that was the reason I had gone up there. However with early morning light I was able to capture some pictures of two juvs. I will try again tomorrow for flight photos weather and light permitting.