{"id":110181,"date":"2023-02-12T02:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T09:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=110181"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:07:20","slug":"female-american-kestrel-get-off-my-lawn-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/02\/12\/female-american-kestrel-get-off-my-lawn-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Female American Kestrel Get Off My Lawn Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I viewed this American Kestrel photo my first thought was if this isn&#8217;t a &#8220;get off my lawn look&#8221; then I have never seen a get off my lawn look from anyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-110177 size-full\" title=\"American Kestrel Get Off My Lawn look\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637.jpg\" alt=\"American Kestrel Get Off My Lawn look, Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #999999;\">American Kestrel Get Off My Lawn look \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 500, +1.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I truly don&#8217;t know what the female <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_kestrel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">American Kestrel<\/span><\/a> was looking at, but this species isn&#8217;t known for having a &#8220;soft&#8221; gaze. Instead, these colorful kestrels often look like they are intent on capturing and dispatching their prey.<\/p>\n<p>More than a few people might call the gaze of these pint sized falcons piercing, intense, and unwavering.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have the female American Kestrel in my viewfinder for long. Because I locked onto her so quickly I did make my time with her count though. With only twenty some images of her on this perch I felt grateful to have gotten this one where she looked so fierce and powerful.<\/p>\n<p>While I wish that she had stayed on this branch longer and that she had faced me when she lifted off, I&#8217;m not complaining. Close images of birds have been more difficult for me to take lately due to finding fewer of them than I have in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>If this kestrel was truly giving me a &#8220;get off my lawn&#8221; look I really couldn&#8217;t blame her. Not with all the habitat destruction that is happening, the noise, the intrusions, and what is occurring to her &#8220;lawn&#8221; because of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;d blame the kestrel for telling me to not only get off her lawn but out of the entire state of Utah. I wouldn&#8217;t blame her one bit.<\/p>\n<p>Life<em> is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/american-kestrel-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my American Kestrel photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I viewed this American Kestrel photo my first thought was if this isn&#8217;t a &#8220;get off my lawn look&#8221; then I have never seen a get off my lawn look from anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,27,1022,697,26],"tags":[4004,155,6076,6577,4199,4078,4279,4070,13673,6276,4892,10014,4094,4104,4018,4095,373],"class_list":["post-110181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-kestrel","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-american-kestrel","tag-blue","tag-branches","tag-falco-sparverius","tag-falcon","tag-falcons","tag-female","tag-get-off-my-lawn","tag-kestrel","tag-kestrels","tag-look","tag-marsh","tag-perched","tag-sky","tag-wetlands","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/american-kestrel-female-get-off-my-lawn-look-mia-mcpherson-2637.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-sF7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108592,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/12\/10\/female-american-kestrel-urban-birds\/","url_meta":{"origin":110181,"position":0},"title":"Female American Kestrel &#8211; 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That Christmas Day was bright and sunny, today isn't going to be at all.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;American Kestrels&quot;","block_context":{"text":"American Kestrels","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/falcons\/american-kestrel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Christmas Day American Kestrel, Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/american-kestrel-christmas-day-male-mia-mcpherson-3425.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/american-kestrel-christmas-day-male-mia-mcpherson-3425.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/american-kestrel-christmas-day-male-mia-mcpherson-3425.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, 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