Kestrel on the Patio – Storyboarding behaviour

Recording animal beviour in my nature journal using a storyboard

Our young Eurasian Kestrel continued to visit and we even observed him caching his prey in our patio pots and retrieving them later to feed. It was quite a sight to behold!

I decided to nature journal his behaviour using a storyboard layout. This is where you divide the page up into a series of smaller boxes to tell a story as is done in a comic book. Its a handy way to record animal or bird behaviour as a sequence of events.

A story board depicting a Eurasian Kestrel retrieving a cached kill from our flower pots and eating it on our garden patio