Hi Delia,
a good set of photos. It looks to me like its coughing up a pellet. birds of
prey do that regularly to get rid of fur, feathers and bones etc. If you look at
image 7 you can see the bill in gape, then in image 8 there is a black pellet on
the clifftop. The first time I watched a kingfisher do this I wondered what was
happening as I thought it was choking or going into some kind of spasm.

Great set of pics, well done!

Adrian.

--- In CornwallWildlifePhotographyGroup@yahoogroups.com, "trathendelia"
<delia@...> wrote:
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> Hi everyone, thought you might be interested to see the sequence of Kestrel
shots taken yesterday. I wondered what he was doing when I first started
shooting. Apologies for the out of focus grasses masking some of the kestrel but
I was too close to the cliff edge to do any gardening. This evening been
watching 3 Peregrines but didn't have big lens!!
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