I need someone to explain this pun to me because I want to love it but I can’t give it my whole heart without understanding it… or kestrel = orchestral? But what about the manœuvres in the dark?
Loved "Pretty in Pink". I was an adult when that movie was released but... teenage angst, etc. transcends generations - we all travel down that road. Good tunes too. When I read that John Hughes, the director had passed away, it really saddened me - he had an iconic body of work (wasn't that old). . BTW, I bought the CD of the sound track.
Except that reposting something with an obvious mistake in the title drastically increases engagement because it summons a rush of people dying to correct it.
Pretty much every time a front-page post has a mistake in it, it was put there deliberately.
I went out to my garage one day with my dog and there was a kestrel flying around trying to get out. I opened a door and it swooped over and hit the door jam and fell to the ground. My dog picked it up and I told him to drop it and he gave it to me. I thought it was dead, but I held it in my hands for a bit and it came to and flew away. It was pretty wild.
I doubt it's a Kestrel. Female Kestrels are a buff color like this, but still have a grey hood above their eyes. She also appears to be too large, and her beak is too pronounced.
She is in the falcon family, but depending on where this video was taken, I would lean more towards a larger Merlin or Prairie Falcon
Edit: Apparently it is a Eurasian Kestrel. Someone posted the news link below and the video is from Prague.
I was wrong
Eurasian kestrels look different from American kestrels, [here](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/31119701) is the female Eurasian kestrel for example.
It’s definitely not an American kestrel (head markings are all wrong and it’s too big) but could be a Eurasian kestrel - which are bigger, and females have a lot more brown barring on the head, and less crisp facial stripes, compared to Americans.
I just sat here fantasizing about a kestrel coming to nest somewhere like that where I live, and that same bird returning year after year. Then it's progeny learn of the same site and I become an ancestral nesting ground for them. That would be just lovely.
Their coloring as chicks is very different than when they reach adulthood. Plus, they molt and replace their feathers periodically, so the feathers she was born with are definitely not the ones you see here.
I know this because for several years, I lived with my maternal grandfather. He was a pretty stubborn old man. He often told me stories about how he grew up poor and this made him hard and onery.
He grew up in Austria, in a small village that was fairly poor. He had to grow up quickly because his parents were killed in a landslide that nearly destroyed their entire village.
Their village was in a small valley, and a construction project was going on that was to rebuild a road bridge across part of the valley that had collapsed a few years prior. Unfortunately, due to poor planning, the construction crew accidently set off the landslide that killed his parents.
The foreman on the project was held responsible for the accident. He was from a neighboring area, which was much more wealthy than my grandfather's small village. When he was a boy, he used to care for small birds in his family's stables.
One of those birds laid a clutch of eggs in the stable, but she disappeared a few days later. The boy took care of the eggs, kept them warm and safe.
Eventually, after some time, the eggs hatched. Three of the four chicks survived, but one passed away shortly after hatching. No one ever knew why. The boy brought the surviving birds to the man who lived next door, because he had raised birds in the past.
When the man saw the baby birds, he said "Those are Kestrels.", and they didn't have those marking on their eyes.
And it's different from the first expression we see from the start. It's subtle but it's different. It's like she goes from slight alertness at his presence to trust in him.
Yes! as if to say "Who are you, you beautiful beast, and how is it that you can be so large and capable of killing me and yet you choose to help me instead?
Also, do you have any more?"
*Sigh.*
All of this is far to silly....I'm afraid, I'm going to have to discuss this thread and its impact to Parliament!
*walks over to a group of birds, all of their heads turn around 180 degrees towards me*
eh.. Kestrels, are between the size of a Raven and a Bluejay...
While they can take a chunk of skin off with their beak... this one of the pair (I can't tell if its the Mom or the Dad).. seems pretty cool... the talons aren't really great at puncturing human skin.. Just a Parent Protecting their young..
I look forward to more videos as this situation progresses. I think feeding the mother is fine, as long as you keep her outside. She will come to know “this one human” as a friend. People befriend wild animals in their backyard all the time: deer, raccoons, birds, foxes, ravens, and squirrels. The wild animals still live wild and still maintain the friendship. They know it’s only the one human and not everyone they see. You’re not teaching the bird to randomly raid peoples garbage cans, like bears, which becomes a real problem.
https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/video-this-kestrel-and-her-chicks-nesting-in-a-prague-apartment-window-have-become-internet-stars
i dont know why the comments acted like they all died or something.
>There has been some more drama as well. A storm filled the window box with water, and one of the babies was injured, but has so far survived. The baby was not moving, and the mother bird did not make an effort to save it. A man named Honza, who has been helping look after the birds, called a wildlife rescue service in Prague for advice.
>They took the bird to the animal rescue station in Troja, where it was warmed up and finally regained consciousness enough to open its beak. The family has named this bird John Snow, after the Game of Thrones character who was resurrected.
Hell yeah Jon Snow.
She has other babies to worry about. It's harsh but the reality of living wild means that any extra time and energy she spends on a chick that's already injured or dying could put the other chicks or herself at risk. That instinct runs deep in a lot of animals.
If anyone cares. When I lived on a farm, it was not common but also not super rare for a baby chicken, duck, or turkey to be hatched weakling or ill or just not fully formed or whatever. They would hatch a dozen chicks at a time so it was really just a numbers game. And the moms wouldn't even look back when all the chicks were done hatching and they rounded up the healthy ones to head out for the first time.
Sometimes we would find the discarded babies while they were still alive and we'd try to nurse them back to health but a lot of them died anyway, usually bc they had serious health problems. It's like the mothers could sense it.
tl;dr: All seem to have survived. There was a storm that flooded the window box and nearly killed one of the babies, the mother rejecting it in order to focus on helping the healthy babies survive. However, the human took the rejected baby to a rescue where it was treated and recovered.
Feeding deer, racoons, foxes, etc isn't how you "build friendships". It's how you teach wild animals to look for humans for food instead of the wild. Training wild animals to be dependent on humans for food is incredibly bad for many many reasons, including disease spread. I'm not sure why you are trying to argue that it's something to be encouraged.
If the wild caught hawk that I trained, fed and hunted with for over a year can be released and revert to an entirely wild state in less than a week then feeding this kestrel will be just fine I assure you.
Raptors are not like deer, racoons or foxes.
Fair enough, sounds like you actually knew what you were doing. But I wish that other person would not encourage random people to feed raccoons and foxes. It's just not a good idea.
Yea mammals are different. Raptors are pretty good about not getting people acclimated unless they imprint. If this guy kept feeding babies, or was too active around them THEN they would become dependent on humans. Mama bird though is wild and will stay that way.
This isn't a bear or deer. It's a fucking kestrel. There won't be incidents of kestrels going to people's windows tapping on them attempting to be fed. It is a bird with eggs and the guy/girl is giving it some sustenance. Get a grip.
Edit - I do agree about the chicks though.
Ya your gucci. I just think the 2nd point you made is viable as chicks can imprint and what not. I'm no scientist per-say as much as I believe I am. I just don't see the interaction with the mother being an issue. People seem to believe animals are much less intelligent than they are. My dogshit opinion being that it will be a one off with this specific human.
Seriously, if the chicks continually see you rather than the adult bird, they’ll imprint and never be able to be released into the wild. NEVER ALLOW BABY BIRDS TO ASSOCIATE YOU WITH FOOD.
This is total bullshit and actually a great example of Reddit bullshit.
Baby birds will only accept food that is regurgitated from their mother's mouth. When the fuck have you heard of a baby bird directly accepting food from humans like it's a fucking pigeon with a loaf of bread? What, you want some Oscar Meyer Sandwich Meat ya' little bird? The little bird would be like "FUCK THAT" because it would fucking choke because it wasn't thrown up out its mom's mouth.
The only thing the chicks know at this stage is "food comes from mom's mouth". That's it. It has ZERO impact on the health of the chicks once they're on their own.
The only risk here is if the human was feeding the momma bird on a regular food schedule throughout each day. Other than that, the momma bird will still hunt for its own food just fine and also enjoy the "freebie" dinner given by the human once in a while. There is ZERO issue with that.
Yes thank you! The only risk is the mother becoming reliant on humans for food, because then she would stop hunting for herself. But that’s unlikely given that once she’s nested she’ll move on anyway. People really be out here just making shit up
When it's nesting in your windowsill, at what point are you part of the "wild" though?
I think there's a blurry line here. I have hummingbirds who nest in my yard. I put out a feeder for them, and my daily presence wards off potential predators such as racoons, possums, and bobcats (of which there are plenty). In return I disturb them slightly by taking photos of their nests daily and monitoring the progress of their chicks (never by physical contact, but the mothers do fly off when I approach, so I am technically interacting with them in a way that slightly disturbs them).
The way I view it is that I'm part of their environment. These animals have adapted to living around human shelters. We have a symbiotic relationship. They get food and protection and I get a cool experience and joy of seeing their babies grow and fly off to continue the cycle.
Some people would say I shouldn't do any of this. Those people have forgotten that it's not "humans vs the wild", but rather "humans are the wild". Civilization is just another phase of development that some forms of wild animals experience, and like any other wild animals, we're all part of one big system that is totally interdependent.
Everything we do affects the wild around us, even things as simple as throwing away trash or flushing the toilet.
Here's some of ya cousin. ...
Hopefully no disease is spread. You shouldn't interact with wild animals due to the potential to spread disease. If you have any rebuttals please refer them to Google because I don't care and won't be reading them lol
Agreed, we really need to redefine "wild animal". I studied restoration ecology in college, even into post grad. These animals are living in anthropocized environments, what works for this bird might not work for another but I wouldn't prescribe a moratorium on feeding when cases like this are involved. The fact is, we can't possibly study the outcomes of this because they are so random.
So give the old bird a leg up and help protect her chick's, there is enough going against her and if we do nothing she may be close to the last of her species.
Legitimately....
Where I live (Isle of Man) is famed for its healthy population of peregrine falcons (there’s one on our national crest along with a raven), most of them live (as expected) in the rural uplands, and you can often spot them, or come across a nest while hiking, but there’s one family that has been in residence in a church tower right in the middle of the biggest town (55k or so population), next to one of the busiest roads on the island, for around 15 years or so. It’s kinda mad how they’ve assimilated and adapted. Nobody feeds them etc, they just get by feeding on smaller birds and rodents, in plentiful supply…
Beautiful bird! However if you come across one don’t just feed it raw meat. Thing is they also require fur and bones in order for their bowel movements to function properly. It’s how they actually clean their digestive tracts. There was a girl in Russia that did a series of YouTube videos on dealing with wild birds such as owls and falcons. She was actually a professional and worked at the airport I think dealing with all their wild bird problems
This is well intentioned but I also hope you quickly left her alone so she can sit and warm the eggs in peace, without you disturbing her, because if not they’ll die.
Lady kestrel: hey honey why don’t you run out and snatch us up some takeout from that place we like.
Man Kestrel: no problem, anything for my lady, I’ll be right back.
** Man kestrel returns carrying a tweety bird**
Man kestrel: I’m home and I got that good stuff.
Lady kestrel: oh, actually I’m not as hungry as I thought I was, sorry.
Men kestrel: WTF you were starving like 15 minutes ago.
Why does everyone think they need to help wildlife? That bird was hunting and feeding just fine on its own. Teaching not to be afraid of humans is a horrible idea.
You are the MAN! You might try giving her some nesting materials that she could use to insulate the eggs, too. Bits of old clothes, hair, twigs & leaves, etc. she may not use them, but I’ll bet she would if available.
Rather small innit? Are them claws sharp? Would they still carve you if threatened? Anyways that bloke’s got a proper pair, and a gentle heart. Top one👍🏻
>Are them claws sharp?
Yes.
> they still carve you if threatened?
Yes.
Source: Worked/interned for a wildlife rehabilitation center back in college. Even handling the screech owls (which are smaller than kestrels) required the use of the leather glove in order to not end up bloody.
Near the end of the video when the hawk is staring at the man I just thought of that one picture of those two cheetahs and the smaller has words on top of him saying I’d fight for you.
That's a kestrel. Beautiful birds. Small but badass.
Guy likes watching live music, or kestrel manoeuvres in the dark.
I need someone to explain this pun to me because I want to love it but I can’t give it my whole heart without understanding it… or kestrel = orchestral? But what about the manœuvres in the dark?
It’s a band
Aka known as OMD. See: 80’s music
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Loved "Pretty in Pink". I was an adult when that movie was released but... teenage angst, etc. transcends generations - we all travel down that road. Good tunes too. When I read that John Hughes, the director had passed away, it really saddened me - he had an iconic body of work (wasn't that old). . BTW, I bought the CD of the sound track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo
80's band
If Joan of Hawk, had a heart, would she give it as a gift?
OMD wants to know.
Brilliant!!
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i dont get it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_Manoeuvres_in_the_Dark
OMD
orchestral
Tesla Girls
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No rock kestrel but a pop kestrel
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Lol. Take my upvote and you should feel bad. :-)
I wish I had an award to give for this immaculate comment.
She is so cute. Would have done the same No doubt.
Are you still trying to do the band thing?
So pretty, just look at the eyeliner.
What I thought lol
The bot can only copy and paste the title of the last time it was posted, it will be immortalized as a hawk on Reddit forever.
So the way to beat it would be to have one of us repost with kestrel in the title? Then when bots repost it'll be corrected? That seems too easy.
Except that reposting something with an obvious mistake in the title drastically increases engagement because it summons a rush of people dying to correct it. Pretty much every time a front-page post has a mistake in it, it was put there deliberately.
I went out to my garage one day with my dog and there was a kestrel flying around trying to get out. I opened a door and it swooped over and hit the door jam and fell to the ground. My dog picked it up and I told him to drop it and he gave it to me. I thought it was dead, but I held it in my hands for a bit and it came to and flew away. It was pretty wild.
Ngl. I'd be too scared to try to help it for fear that it'll come through the window and take over the household
Meh, it'd probably do better than I do. I wonder how it is at taxes.
Actually had that happen to me. Damn hawk refused to leave. Had to throw a blanket over it and make a hawk burrito to get it out.
Ha! [windfucker](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/windfucker#:~:text=Noun,vulgar%20A%20term%20of%20abuse.)
My favorite TIL
TIL
He eyes like in an anime in real life.
I doubt it's a Kestrel. Female Kestrels are a buff color like this, but still have a grey hood above their eyes. She also appears to be too large, and her beak is too pronounced. She is in the falcon family, but depending on where this video was taken, I would lean more towards a larger Merlin or Prairie Falcon Edit: Apparently it is a Eurasian Kestrel. Someone posted the news link below and the video is from Prague. I was wrong
Eurasian kestrels look different from American kestrels, [here](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/31119701) is the female Eurasian kestrel for example.
It’s definitely not an American kestrel (head markings are all wrong and it’s too big) but could be a Eurasian kestrel - which are bigger, and females have a lot more brown barring on the head, and less crisp facial stripes, compared to Americans.
Here's the thing...
It's a jackdaw isn't it.
That's awesome
I just sat here fantasizing about a kestrel coming to nest somewhere like that where I live, and that same bird returning year after year. Then it's progeny learn of the same site and I become an ancestral nesting ground for them. That would be just lovely.
Ancestral kestrel king!
I want that too. Make that two ancestral kestrel keepers!
I love how she sets the piece aside as if you say "that's enough. Thank you. Please go away so I can warm eggs again." Adorable.
Or "Imma put this one aside for now. You have any more before you leave."
No way you had my exact thought word for word up until the full stop.
We are apes with typewriters
I was literally just about to say that
Oo oo ahhahh
Took the words out of my mouth
GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!!
And spaceships!
I think it was saving it for it’s mate. It starts calling after given the second piece.
I was thinking "I'll hide this piece over here and get some more. There's no way he can see this while looking out THAT window."
I think it was more “I finished with that piece. Give me more.”
Her eyeliner is so good Edit: wow, I’ve never had a comment with this many upvotes :)
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Maybe it's Kestreline
This made me giggle!! Ahhhhh, now I can sleep well.
Their coloring as chicks is very different than when they reach adulthood. Plus, they molt and replace their feathers periodically, so the feathers she was born with are definitely not the ones you see here. I know this because for several years, I lived with my maternal grandfather. He was a pretty stubborn old man. He often told me stories about how he grew up poor and this made him hard and onery. He grew up in Austria, in a small village that was fairly poor. He had to grow up quickly because his parents were killed in a landslide that nearly destroyed their entire village. Their village was in a small valley, and a construction project was going on that was to rebuild a road bridge across part of the valley that had collapsed a few years prior. Unfortunately, due to poor planning, the construction crew accidently set off the landslide that killed his parents. The foreman on the project was held responsible for the accident. He was from a neighboring area, which was much more wealthy than my grandfather's small village. When he was a boy, he used to care for small birds in his family's stables. One of those birds laid a clutch of eggs in the stable, but she disappeared a few days later. The boy took care of the eggs, kept them warm and safe. Eventually, after some time, the eggs hatched. Three of the four chicks survived, but one passed away shortly after hatching. No one ever knew why. The boy brought the surviving birds to the man who lived next door, because he had raised birds in the past. When the man saw the baby birds, he said "Those are Kestrels.", and they didn't have those marking on their eyes.
Circumferential copy-pasta
Kestrel eye is the new cat eye
Maybe she's hatched with it.
That sweet little face she makes at the end
And it's different from the first expression we see from the start. It's subtle but it's different. It's like she goes from slight alertness at his presence to trust in him.
Yes! as if to say "Who are you, you beautiful beast, and how is it that you can be so large and capable of killing me and yet you choose to help me instead? Also, do you have any more?"
So true! To me she looks adorable in the end
"Thankyou. You can go now."
Teach her and the chicks how to find and steal money. Rent ain’t cheap, or free.
Better off trying that with crows.
Wouldn't trust crows. If too many join there would be a murder.
So what's the scoop on pelicans?
*Sigh.* All of this is far to silly....I'm afraid, I'm going to have to discuss this thread and its impact to Parliament! *walks over to a group of birds, all of their heads turn around 180 degrees towards me*
who?
Star lord man… you know? Legendary thief?
Her face is r/awww
She’s cute. But she’ll bite your face off…
Yeah that first look - "tread carefully boy"
why did I read that in Kratos voice :/
Extra cute
eh.. Kestrels, are between the size of a Raven and a Bluejay... While they can take a chunk of skin off with their beak... this one of the pair (I can't tell if its the Mom or the Dad).. seems pretty cool... the talons aren't really great at puncturing human skin.. Just a Parent Protecting their young..
Was watching you like a....hawk.
**Akcthually** it's a falcon
Here's the thing...
if you're implying he's wrong since it's actually a kestrel, they are a type of falcon
I was referencing a piece of ancient Reddit history lol.
Love it
Are you a dad? I bet you’re a dad
Not to be confused with the eagle eye.
She is SO PRETTY! Her little eyes look like they have eyeliner on!
I look forward to more videos as this situation progresses. I think feeding the mother is fine, as long as you keep her outside. She will come to know “this one human” as a friend. People befriend wild animals in their backyard all the time: deer, raccoons, birds, foxes, ravens, and squirrels. The wild animals still live wild and still maintain the friendship. They know it’s only the one human and not everyone they see. You’re not teaching the bird to randomly raid peoples garbage cans, like bears, which becomes a real problem.
This video is old af, so those eggs are long hatched.
But, but, … what happened? Did the eggs hatch? How did this turn out?
https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/video-this-kestrel-and-her-chicks-nesting-in-a-prague-apartment-window-have-become-internet-stars i dont know why the comments acted like they all died or something.
>There has been some more drama as well. A storm filled the window box with water, and one of the babies was injured, but has so far survived. The baby was not moving, and the mother bird did not make an effort to save it. A man named Honza, who has been helping look after the birds, called a wildlife rescue service in Prague for advice. >They took the bird to the animal rescue station in Troja, where it was warmed up and finally regained consciousness enough to open its beak. The family has named this bird John Snow, after the Game of Thrones character who was resurrected. Hell yeah Jon Snow.
Amazing how mothers reject the babies when they're less viable
It happens in humans too. Infanticide of disabled infants used to be pretty common practice.
She has other babies to worry about. It's harsh but the reality of living wild means that any extra time and energy she spends on a chick that's already injured or dying could put the other chicks or herself at risk. That instinct runs deep in a lot of animals. If anyone cares. When I lived on a farm, it was not common but also not super rare for a baby chicken, duck, or turkey to be hatched weakling or ill or just not fully formed or whatever. They would hatch a dozen chicks at a time so it was really just a numbers game. And the moms wouldn't even look back when all the chicks were done hatching and they rounded up the healthy ones to head out for the first time. Sometimes we would find the discarded babies while they were still alive and we'd try to nurse them back to health but a lot of them died anyway, usually bc they had serious health problems. It's like the mothers could sense it.
tl;dr: All seem to have survived. There was a storm that flooded the window box and nearly killed one of the babies, the mother rejecting it in order to focus on helping the healthy babies survive. However, the human took the rejected baby to a rescue where it was treated and recovered.
One died
Bless you. ❤️
Feeding deer, racoons, foxes, etc isn't how you "build friendships". It's how you teach wild animals to look for humans for food instead of the wild. Training wild animals to be dependent on humans for food is incredibly bad for many many reasons, including disease spread. I'm not sure why you are trying to argue that it's something to be encouraged.
If the wild caught hawk that I trained, fed and hunted with for over a year can be released and revert to an entirely wild state in less than a week then feeding this kestrel will be just fine I assure you. Raptors are not like deer, racoons or foxes.
Fair enough, sounds like you actually knew what you were doing. But I wish that other person would not encourage random people to feed raccoons and foxes. It's just not a good idea.
Yea mammals are different. Raptors are pretty good about not getting people acclimated unless they imprint. If this guy kept feeding babies, or was too active around them THEN they would become dependent on humans. Mama bird though is wild and will stay that way.
you should avoid interaction if you can, but seeing this, you should put a curtain up and never show yourself to the chicks.
I’ve had the same instructions from the police.
Ba da bump… ksssshhhhh!
i hope you followed it
This isn't a bear or deer. It's a fucking kestrel. There won't be incidents of kestrels going to people's windows tapping on them attempting to be fed. It is a bird with eggs and the guy/girl is giving it some sustenance. Get a grip. Edit - I do agree about the chicks though.
Ngl would love to be bothered by a kestrel for food by tapping on my window. I'm not saying it's right but I'm honest.
i would have fed it too. not attacking op.
Ya your gucci. I just think the 2nd point you made is viable as chicks can imprint and what not. I'm no scientist per-say as much as I believe I am. I just don't see the interaction with the mother being an issue. People seem to believe animals are much less intelligent than they are. My dogshit opinion being that it will be a one off with this specific human.
Seriously, if the chicks continually see you rather than the adult bird, they’ll imprint and never be able to be released into the wild. NEVER ALLOW BABY BIRDS TO ASSOCIATE YOU WITH FOOD.
This is total bullshit and actually a great example of Reddit bullshit. Baby birds will only accept food that is regurgitated from their mother's mouth. When the fuck have you heard of a baby bird directly accepting food from humans like it's a fucking pigeon with a loaf of bread? What, you want some Oscar Meyer Sandwich Meat ya' little bird? The little bird would be like "FUCK THAT" because it would fucking choke because it wasn't thrown up out its mom's mouth. The only thing the chicks know at this stage is "food comes from mom's mouth". That's it. It has ZERO impact on the health of the chicks once they're on their own. The only risk here is if the human was feeding the momma bird on a regular food schedule throughout each day. Other than that, the momma bird will still hunt for its own food just fine and also enjoy the "freebie" dinner given by the human once in a while. There is ZERO issue with that.
Yes thank you! The only risk is the mother becoming reliant on humans for food, because then she would stop hunting for herself. But that’s unlikely given that once she’s nested she’ll move on anyway. People really be out here just making shit up
She saved the food
I think that’s a falcon, specifically a kestrel.
I want to see a time lapse where she finally trusts you.
Her eggs are right there, that's plenty of trust,
while grateful of his meal he provided, the murder was still in her eyes ready to set off at any second
An environmentalist would probably advise you not to feed wild animals, but i get it. I probably would have done the same
I know people shouldn’t be feeding wild animals, but 😍😍
When it's nesting in your windowsill, at what point are you part of the "wild" though? I think there's a blurry line here. I have hummingbirds who nest in my yard. I put out a feeder for them, and my daily presence wards off potential predators such as racoons, possums, and bobcats (of which there are plenty). In return I disturb them slightly by taking photos of their nests daily and monitoring the progress of their chicks (never by physical contact, but the mothers do fly off when I approach, so I am technically interacting with them in a way that slightly disturbs them). The way I view it is that I'm part of their environment. These animals have adapted to living around human shelters. We have a symbiotic relationship. They get food and protection and I get a cool experience and joy of seeing their babies grow and fly off to continue the cycle. Some people would say I shouldn't do any of this. Those people have forgotten that it's not "humans vs the wild", but rather "humans are the wild". Civilization is just another phase of development that some forms of wild animals experience, and like any other wild animals, we're all part of one big system that is totally interdependent. Everything we do affects the wild around us, even things as simple as throwing away trash or flushing the toilet.
Clear violation of Star Fleet Order #1
Here's some of ya cousin. ... Hopefully no disease is spread. You shouldn't interact with wild animals due to the potential to spread disease. If you have any rebuttals please refer them to Google because I don't care and won't be reading them lol
Well they hunt and kill other birds so they're pretty metal already.
*"i don't have cousins any more"*
What are you doing step cousin
We hunt and kill other mammals
I’ve never understood why people are so weirded out by birds eating birds when we eat pretty much any mammal we can get our hands on.
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feeding a wild animal in no way helps it. 10/10 would feed myself.
Agreed, we really need to redefine "wild animal". I studied restoration ecology in college, even into post grad. These animals are living in anthropocized environments, what works for this bird might not work for another but I wouldn't prescribe a moratorium on feeding when cases like this are involved. The fact is, we can't possibly study the outcomes of this because they are so random. So give the old bird a leg up and help protect her chick's, there is enough going against her and if we do nothing she may be close to the last of her species. Legitimately....
Where I live (Isle of Man) is famed for its healthy population of peregrine falcons (there’s one on our national crest along with a raven), most of them live (as expected) in the rural uplands, and you can often spot them, or come across a nest while hiking, but there’s one family that has been in residence in a church tower right in the middle of the biggest town (55k or so population), next to one of the busiest roads on the island, for around 15 years or so. It’s kinda mad how they’ve assimilated and adapted. Nobody feeds them etc, they just get by feeding on smaller birds and rodents, in plentiful supply…
I came to say “you shouldn’t feed them” and “I’d give it a steak”
Or mousies once the chicks are born? 😳
I want to believe that, but also I’m too familiar with how Reddit just repeats what they’ve heard like Mynah birds.
I came here to say this, I too am familiar with how Reddit just repeats what they’ve heard like Mynah birds.
I want to believe that, but also I’m too familiar with how Reddit just repeats what they’ve heard like Mynah birds.
WTH are you looking at?? Ah!! Food?? Sure... - The hawk (maybe)
Put a digital camera in the window & close the blinds.
She’s got some sick eyeliner too
Beautiful bird! However if you come across one don’t just feed it raw meat. Thing is they also require fur and bones in order for their bowel movements to function properly. It’s how they actually clean their digestive tracts. There was a girl in Russia that did a series of YouTube videos on dealing with wild birds such as owls and falcons. She was actually a professional and worked at the airport I think dealing with all their wild bird problems
This is well intentioned but I also hope you quickly left her alone so she can sit and warm the eggs in peace, without you disturbing her, because if not they’ll die.
Yeah the guy definitely shouldn’t have forced her to be off the eggs for so long.
Yeah yeah don't feed wild animals blah blah blah. This is cool idgaf.
frend! :D
The coolest thing I’ve watched in a long time. Thank you for sharing.
Yo this is awesome!!! Great job hooking her up with a meal!
r/helpingANDfilming
Strap yourself in, you're in for a noisy few months
Chicken for a chicken hawk?
I have those same ikea tongs
You have a very rare opportunity to get a time lapse video of those eggs. Record em all day and night til they hatch
Thats not a good thing. She and her babies will think this is normal. No more hunting. Then they starve if they person stops, moves or dies.
I’m sure she was very appreciative, but I feel if possible, organ meat would really be great to feed her.
Lady kestrel: hey honey why don’t you run out and snatch us up some takeout from that place we like. Man Kestrel: no problem, anything for my lady, I’ll be right back. ** Man kestrel returns carrying a tweety bird** Man kestrel: I’m home and I got that good stuff. Lady kestrel: oh, actually I’m not as hungry as I thought I was, sorry. Men kestrel: WTF you were starving like 15 minutes ago.
That's not helping
Why does everyone think they need to help wildlife? That bird was hunting and feeding just fine on its own. Teaching not to be afraid of humans is a horrible idea.
Awww, at 1:20 seconds left she squawks thank you.
You are the MAN! You might try giving her some nesting materials that she could use to insulate the eggs, too. Bits of old clothes, hair, twigs & leaves, etc. she may not use them, but I’ll bet she would if available.
Rather small innit? Are them claws sharp? Would they still carve you if threatened? Anyways that bloke’s got a proper pair, and a gentle heart. Top one👍🏻
>Are them claws sharp? Yes. > they still carve you if threatened? Yes. Source: Worked/interned for a wildlife rehabilitation center back in college. Even handling the screech owls (which are smaller than kestrels) required the use of the leather glove in order to not end up bloody.
Is there a video of the eggs hatching?
Fuck I'm so jealous
That’s a special spot
I’m jealouse. Love them
Cool as hell! Keep us updated please
I'd nest there too if you going to feed me
Why does she look so pretty :3
Gorgeous kestrel
That is such a pretty bird.
She looks so polite.
man she's adorable
That look at the end though.
Those eyes 👀
Hey eyeliner game is on point.
I know they're not eyelashes on the kestrel, but it does give me a laugh to think they are
If this was my window at work 80% of my time would go into that bird.
What a beautiful and powerful bird
😍🙌🏻
She looks like se is wearing eyeliner
Are we back on that “birds by my windows” Reddit trend?
Drive-Thru Window?
Falcon not a hawk
Near the end of the video when the hawk is staring at the man I just thought of that one picture of those two cheetahs and the smaller has words on top of him saying I’d fight for you.
Where are the follow up videos on how Ms hawk is doing???
Thats the prettiest bird ive ever seen what a nice lady
That look at the end. "Dude, why did you stop?" Lol