Along the trail that leads from Cul-de-sac to Anse Marcel, you can often see American Kestrels sitting on the rocks or columnar cacti near Eastern Point. Their diet is mostly grasshoppers and lizards, and the grassy area near the point is a great place for them to spot potential prey.
To take a photo like this one, find a kestrel in a good spot and then slowly approach it while keeping it in focus on your camera. (And hope you don’t step on a cactus.) Watch for it to bend its knees right before jumping off, and if you’re lucky, you can capture a nice moment.
The Kickstarter project to fund the printing of the all-new second edition of the book has one week left. If you back the project, you’ll get thanked in the book, like these people, the most recent backers: Jesse Shereff, Ans Koolen, Elaine and Bill Miller and Paul Fry.
By backing the project, you help provide the funds to print a small run of the new book, which will make it more affordable, and also better, because I am able to include more pages and use higher quality paper and printing options.
If you want a copy of the book, you can use Kickstarter to pre-order it, and you will also get a limited-edition, autographed print of one or more of the photos in the book.
The project page is here, so don’t wait until it’s too late.
