I recently got back to New York from Utah where I spent some time with my family and my new niece. While most of the time there was uneventful, I did have the chance to rescue a little kestrel from the window-well of my parents house. After the ordeal of actually getting him out of the window-well I took him to the back yard where he say quietly for about ten minutes before he attempted to fly back to his nest (actually, I have no idea whether it was a male or female). This gave me time to take a few pictures of him before his parents decided to protect him and forced me back inside the house.
