On Sunday Jan 1 in the afternoon I was at Wendy Park and parked all the way at the end near the Cuyahoga River. There were two Kestrels hunting on a wire over the fence to the south of the lot. When I first saw the Kestrel on the wire it had a mouse in its talons. I then saw the kestrel fly over to a telephone pole and stick the dead mouse in an opening in a small pipe or electrical conduit on the side of the pole. That is, he was storing it there for later consumption. I tried to look this up but couldn't find anything about Kestrel's doing this. This was the day before the big snow squalls. It was as if it knew the forcast and was preparing by stocking up the refrigerator! Does anyone know of this kind of behavior in Kestrels or other Falcons? ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]