[Tweeters] ID help please?

[Catherine Alexander]

This morning caught a flash of flight out of the corner of my eye and followed the bird for about 30 sec before it dove out of sight.

You know that thing that happens when you see something you don’t quite understand? This was it. The flight was swallow like - nimble and quick. The bird, only in silhouette and in the company of a crow and some starlings, was closer to the size of a starling and again, swallow like in form. I remember sharp, narrow, longish wings and it cutting through the air like an acrobat, but this time not swallow like and so incredibly fast. It dropped out of sight just as I blinked.

The weird thing was that it flew right next to the crow and that crow immediately peeled off in a different direction.

Could it have been a Kestrel?

Catherine Alexander 
Lakewood Neighborhood 
South Seattle

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