This picture was not taken from
an outrigger. As we beached the canoes at the Pasadena Street
landing one morning, this female Kestrel began to hover over the
bench on the dune, just 20 feet from the outriggers. For the
next twenty minutes she rode the slight onshore breeze and
hovered almost directly overhead. Smallest of the falcon family
and a very colorful bird of prey, males can be differentiated
from the females by their slate-blue-grey wings.
