in message <[email hidden]>, 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?
No, but sparrow hawks frequently do. I don't think kestrels normally fly
fast in powered flight, either - so I'd put that one down as a sparrow
hawk.
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