Fwd: [cobirds] Kestrel falcon, Lakewood

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From: Mary Geder <mfg5000@live.com>
Date: November 4, 2015 at 10:10:57 PM MST
To: "fiddlenurs@aol.com" <fiddlenurs@aol.com>
Subject: RE: [cobirds] Kestrel falcon, Lakewood

This brings up a topic that has long interested me, perhaps a counterpart to 'what do birds eat?",  that is, where do birds sleep?  I have not investigated this in any meaningful or thorough way yet.  But have only anecdotal evidence of some interesting roosts.  So far, my favorite is the Carolina Wren that roosts in the folds of a collapsed patio umbrella at my cousin's house in Virginia.  After the bird has settled in there, you can gently open the fold of the umbrella and peak in at the bird.  Facing inward and acting comatose, he/she operates under the theory that 

if he/she can't see it, then it can't see him/her.   I'd be interested to hear of other unique resting/roosting spots.

Mary Geder

Lakewood, Jefferson Co

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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Kestrel falcon, Lakewood
From: cobirds@googlegroups.com
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 21:40:57 -0700
CC: cobirds@googlegroups.com
To: goldeneagle90a@gmail.com

Do they use the same the same place or find another place to roost? I'm not clear on which birds roost inside a shelter as opposed to sleeping out on the limb.

Deb Carstensen, Littleton Arapahoe county

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On Nov 4, 2015, at 9:33 PM, Todd Deininger <goldeneagle90a@gmail.com> wrote:

When I used to work in north Denver, the apartment building next to the school had a pair of American Kestrels nesting in the roof.  They would enter through a small crack.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:04 PM, 'Deborah Carstensen' via Colorado Birds <cobirds@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I was preparing to go into the Bed ,Bath and Beyond  store  on Bowles just east of Wadsworth when I looked up to see a kestrel flying up to a hole in the façade of the building where the sign is. There is a round hole, approximately 2 to 3 inches in diameter up and to the left of the main sign for the store. He looked in the hole for a little bit, went in, and didn't come back out for as long as I watched (which, admittedly, wasn't very long).
    A retail roosting box? It was just before dusk…

Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County

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