Effortlessly at height hangs his still eye.

His wings hold all creation in a weightless quiet
Steady as a hallucination in the streaming air.

-- Ted Hughes
from ‘The Hawk in the Rain: Poems’, 1957
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Our local Master of the Wind came calling yesterday.
As the smallest of raptors, the kestrel reminds us that:
It is no small thing to live one’s own life.

#Kestrel #Windhover #Australian #Wildlife #Birds #Poetry #Philosophy #BirdScrolling #CoastalNSW

A video of the Kestrel (Windhover) hunting over Exminster Marshes this morning.

#Birdsofmastodon #birds #devon #kestrel #windhover #nature #wildlife #thursday

https://youtu.be/hlSoe1NEQEc

Its been a while since I've visited Exminster Marshes so I put that right this morning.

Few people about so it was nice and quiet. #Devon #Birds #Birding #nature #widlife #ExminsterMarshes #wetlands #kestrel #windhover #cattleegret #grey heron #BirdsofMastodon

📷 An Egret on Cattle - its a Cattle Egret 😂
📷 A Grey Heron on a gate
📷 A Kestrel living up to its alternative name of a Windhover