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 I once binged watched a series of YouTube videos of a guy documenting a pair of owls raising their young over the course of weeks. I was more captivated by it than any goyslop I watched in years. Then I watched another series about kestrels from the same channel. Dude was like an autistic bird voyeur. 
 Kestrels are a great bird. I forget who here obsesses over kestrels but he enjoys them greatly, I just can’t remember who he is at the moment. Anything involving nature is just so cleansing and engaging. 
 My old psycho boss at the startup I worked at once asked me what kind of animal I'd want to be reincarnated as and I told him I wanted to be a kestrel. He was really taken aback by the answer for some reason. I guess out of all of the people who would want to reincarnate as a raptors Kestrel isn't a very common choice.