Tending to park business this past Saturday morning 3/12/11took me
down Rt. 528 through Middlefield Twp. to Parkman Twp.  At the
intersection of Rt. 87 and Rt. 528 was a kestrel on the wire. A crow
came up behind it at spooked it into flight.  What ensued was a
rollicking aerial chase in which the birds alternately chased each
other west towards Middlefield Village.  Some pretty fancy aerial
manuevers with the kestel outflying the crow.

  Incidently I used to see a kestrel within a 1/2 mile of this
intersection until the last few years; further testimony to the
decline of this falcon regionally and locally here in Geauga County as
well.

A few miles down Rt. 528 in the vicinity of Shedd Rd., saw another
kestrel on a roadside utility wire.  Two in one day in the same
township!

Dan Best, Geauga Park District

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