Re: Kestrels and cliffs --Questions

[Helmut Mueller <hmuelle@earthlink.net>]

Yes, Kestrels do cache food & occasionally nest in cavities on cliffs or
buildings.

-- Helmut C Mueller

409 Moonridge Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Phone: 919-942-4937

Permanent email address: hmueller@email.unc.edu


> From: "Reece Mitchell" <rmitche2@tds.net>
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 07:46:48 -0500
> To: "Carolina Birds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
> Subject: Kestrels and cliffs --Questions
> 
> Yesterday as I was spending the morning at Chimney Rock Park hoping in vain
> that the Peregrine Falcons would come back to that site, an American Kestrel
> was on the cliff. It flew around the cliff face and entered a crevice. It
> stayed a few minutes and appeared to be eating something.
> Can someone tell me if Kestrels ever nest in cliffs and also do they cache
> food?
> 
> Other birds at the park were numerous, but nothing unusual. I did see a
> Great Blue Handsa...uh, ..Heron flying up the river.
> (Chimney Rock Park is located on Rt. 64 some 20 miles east of
> Hendersonville, NC.)
> 
> Peregrines are active on at least nine sites in Western NC. Again it looks
> like the best place to get a good view of a nesting pair will be at Devil's
> Courthouse, located at mile 422 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Watch from the
> parking lot. You can see a lot with binoculars, but a 'scope will be better.
> Reece
> 
> Reece 'n Judy Mitchell
> Flat Rock, NC
> rmitche2@tds.net
>