Kestrel

Notes From The Downs

I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
      dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
      Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing

The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Last summer I watched an adult kestrel teaching its fledged young to hunt. Th…