Google lens is suggesting Lesser Kestrel and a quick google shows it could be ... a rare sight in Uk apparently ... but I can't personally verify!
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I don't see it as much different to a lot of Kestrels I have photographed. he worst colour \I would ever call one would be creamy.
Wendy it was my first thought when I looked in my bird book RSPB Britain’s
birds page 324 Lesser Kestrel. It would be nice to think I have seen and photographed a very rare falcon.
It was the rusty orangey red on shoulders which looked like a particular google pic! ...
en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Lesser_kestrel
Thank you Wendy and Bob for your thoughts if I get it confirmed as a lesser Kestrel I shall let you know either way.
it will be interesting if you can see it again and get better pics and have it confirmed as a Lesser Kestrel, though I can't see anything that says it isn't a standard male Kestrel - colour looks a little oversaturated but that would be down to camera / settings.
Good to hear from you again ILR.
I'll leave the ID to the more knowledgeable in the community, though if it is a lesser kestrel, what a find.
Mike
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Hi Mike pleased your posting again I hope things have improved for you
I have put the feelers out and waiting for a reply. As soon as I hear anything
I shall let those interested the outcome.
I think I would go with Kestrel and put the colour down to having a blue sky and sunshine off the back - sun has been such a rare occurrence this year
Cin J
i love robins said:Hi Mike pleased your posting again I hope things have improved for you I have put the feelers out and waiting for a reply. As soon as I hear anything I shall let those interested the outcome.
Thank you ILR, and it's good to see your posts again too. I'm back, though things are still, dare I say, 'at an interesting stage'.
After Norfolk, things are not what they should be, but that was a good weeks holiday and I shall "repent at leisure" as they say.