Cute Kestrel Chicks Doted Over by Caring Kestrel Mum | Fotherdale Kestrel Nest Cam

All five kestrel chicks are growing fast under the care of their doting parents. The male works hard to find food for his hungry family and has been bringing in a wide variety of prey, from small rats to lizards.
It is the female's job to tear this up into tiny morsels to feed the chicks. She is very fair, distributing a little bit to each one in turn. If there are any bits that are too big she eats them herself and where a prey item is too big to finish in one go she caches the rest at the back of the nest for another day - like a food larder.
Watch her pluck a blackbird ready for her chicks - the nest quickly gets carpeted in fine blackbird feathers. Notice how fast the chicks grow from tiny, helpless creatures unable to hold up their heads to a noisy rabble squabbling over food by the time they are just one week old!
The kestrel mum is so attentive. Watch as she spreads her wings over her fluffy brood and envelopes them in her feathers - at one point she actually topples over!
She is still very wary of intruders, which is hardly surprising after all the attacks on the nest she endured whilst incubating, but she's a fierce defender and these chicks are set to do well.
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This female kestrel has had to fight to keep her nest all season. Follow her story of bravery here: https://www.robertefuller.com/diary/stories-from-a-kestrel-nest-camera-2020/

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