On the same topic as yesterday; all this month at the World Center of Birds of Prey, they are doing flight demonstrations of some of their birds. During the demos they swing a lure (a ring with meat attached) and the birds attack it mid air. Even though Saturday was ridiculously windy (try standing on a hillside with no trees...) they flew three birds: an Arctic Gyrfalcon, a Peregrine Falcon, and an American Kestrel (which is what is pictured below).
The poor little Kestrel only weighs about 100 grams, so they tried not to keep him in flight very long, and you could tell he was fighting to stay in the air. The bird is so small in fact, that it reseted on a single finger of the falconer and she had to shield it from the wind just to show it off.
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