What type of bird is this ?

[Sprouts]

Keeps turning up for breakfast on our bathroom window. Bit of beef curry this morning.

[mrsshpub]

Female merlin?

[dmitsi]

mrsshpub said:

Female merlin?

I'd agree with that. Beautiful! Wish we had those turn up for breakfast here.

[Sprouts]

I think you're right chaps. Thanks. Hope it keeps turning up.

[blindswelledrat]

Surely its a Kestrel?

[wiggy001]

blindswelledrat said:

Surely its a Kestrel?

I'm going with Kestrel. Thought a Merlin would have more grey over the wings?

[blindswelledrat]

I this in Israel OP?

[Pothole]

Lucky bugger! Gorgeous thing that is.

[dmitsi]

wiggy001 said:

blindswelledrat said:

Surely its a Kestrel?

I'm going with Kestrel. Thought a Merlin would have more grey over the wings?

They're very similar looking birds, the female Merlin can look almost identical to a kestrel. The merlin will be a lot smaller, and have a white stripe above the eye, which I thought I could see in the first photo. Also the kestrel should have a black band at the end of its tail.

I'm no expert. They do fly very differently though, so the OP could look at that to help identify it.

[blindswelledrat]

dmitsi said:

. The merlin will be a lot smaller, .

If you look at that first picture, the bird is almost as big as the house behind it thus it must be an enormous kestrel

[dmitsi]

blindswelledrat said:

dmitsi said:

. The merlin will be a lot smaller, .

If you look at that first picture, the bird is almost as big as the house behind it thus it must be an enormous kestrel

Well at first glance it looks like a house, but it's actually a shack which is a lot smaller than a house. They can look remarkably similar, but defining qualities, such as surfboards, bikes and towels left outside help with identification. Obvously a house would have sufficient space to stores these things inside.

[blindswelledrat]

[central]

Kes.

Most likely a first winter bird.

Edited by central on Wednesday 24th October 14:25

Edited by central on Wednesday 24th October 14:26

[blindswelledrat]

Just irrelevantly posting a picture of one me and my daughter found the other day that was injured.

[highflyer]

juvenile kestrel probably this years young, should be fed fresh meat NOT cooked if you have to feed at all ?

[Sprouts]

highflyer said:

juvenile kestrel probably this years young, should be fed fresh meat NOT cooked if you have to feed at all ?

The beef curry bit was tongue in cheek. It wasn't fed anything. It was asking for a cup of tea though.

[vinopete]

definately a penguin

[Pothole]

vinopete said:

definately a penguin

No, you should never give them chocolate biscuits.

[Mubby]

Pothole said:

No, you should never give them chocolate biscuits.

Edited by Mubby on Thursday 25th October 06:40

[Sprouts]

She was here again this morning and I noticed she had a dodgy foot. So i called the girl in the kibbutz zoo and she told me it's the same one she rescued a year ago, and she's ok able to fend and feed herself no bother. Which is nice.


I named her Janet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd...