Tim Hall said:
Last night cycling home down a country lane, something caught my eye.
I glanced towards the verge to see a fast bird flying along at nought
feet, hugging the ground profile. I was doing about 25km/h and it was
going faster than me and then it whizzed over a hedge. Dead sure it
was a bird of prey of some sort - either a kestrel or (hopefully) a
sparrow hawk. It wasn't doing the kestrel hovering thing, but I guess
they're not _always_ doing that. Do they do the flying along at nought
feet thing?
They're fantastic fliers and can do almost anything in the flying way,
but your description reads much more sparrow-hawkish than kestrelish.
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Brian G
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