{"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":"

When I viewed this American Kestrel photo my first thought was if this isn’t a “get off my lawn look” then I have never seen a get off my lawn look from anyone.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanAmerican 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

I truly don’t know what the female American Kestrel<\/span><\/a> was looking at, but this species isn’t known for having a “soft” gaze. Instead, these colorful kestrels often look like they are intent on capturing and dispatching their prey.<\/p>\n

More than a few people might call the gaze of these pint sized falcons piercing, intense, and unwavering.<\/p>\n

I didn’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

While I wish that she had stayed on this branch longer and that she had faced me when she lifted off, I’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

If this kestrel was truly giving me a “get off my lawn” look I really couldn’t blame her. Not with all the habitat destruction that is happening, the noise, the intrusions, and what is occurring to her “lawn” because of climate change.<\/p>\n

I can’t say I’d blame the kestrel for telling me to not only get off her lawn but out of the entire state of Utah. I wouldn’t blame her one bit.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my American Kestrel photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I viewed this American Kestrel photo my first thought was if this isn’t a “get off my lawn look” 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t