It was a VERY slow spring for me photographically-speaking but things perked up in late May when I located an active kestrel nest in Harlem. It was near my workplace so I didn't have a lot of time to spend there during the day and didn't capture any images of the parents. However, my timing was good in getting up there just as the three nestlings had fledged the prior day. The image below is of one of them who I think tried to return to the nest hole in the cornice of this building but ended up clutching the bricks instead. I don't love the quality of the photo but, other than woodpeckers and nuthatches, I haven't seen birds clinging to the side of anything before this.
LOL, Amy and Axel. She wasn't in that location too long. I was more worried I'd have to rescue her from the car traffic when she attempted to fly vertically from there to the nest hole. However, she made it across Amsterdam Avenue to a tree and that was the last I saw of her!
"I dare you to help me!"
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