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In 2011 I was privileged enough to be able to spend some hundred hours with this kestrel family from copulation to flight. These are the two survivors of a brood of three, the third being less well developed, and disappeared a couple of days after leaving the nest.

Here Mum seems satisfied that delivering the spider was all she needed to do, the chicks could sort out the rest themselves.

Callum Brae, Australian Capital Territory, 2011.

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