Kestrel above a Moorland Wall

Kestrels never build a nest of their own. They lay their eggs in an old crow's nest, a hole in a tree or a ledge on a cliff. Plenty now use boxes that farmers and birders put up on poles. Here one tips forward off the wind toward the heather beside a lichen-crusted stone wall, with a lake far off in the brown hills. A falcon caught mid-drop over open moor makes a striking kestrel jigsaw puzzle, with plenty of sky around those barred wings.