I have frequently spotted kestrels perched on overhead power cables hunting and when the unsuspecting prey is spotted below them they just simply drop down and seize the prey and that was exactly what this male kestrel did and after a good feed he flew up onto this old broken tree stump where I was able to photograph him I was hidden from his view crouched down behind an old stone wall.
Kestrel male
http://www.paul-green.org/blog/2012/11/kestrel-male
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