Even the animals were intimidated by the gusty wind. This female Kestrel was only a few yards away from me. I had spotted her trying to get airborne while driving up the hill from Langdon Beck. She was always being forced back onto the pole by the strong wind. I had enough time to stop the car and take my camera. You can see her worried look. It was great that a tiny sunbeam lit up her feathers just at the right moment. Finally she managed to take off only to take shelter behind the stone wall a few yards away.

A good spot to introduce Thomas Bewick. I am currently reading his biography which gives a detailed picture of life in the north in the late 18th - early 19th century. His birthplace is near Edmundbyers and run by the National Trust as a museum:

Cherryburn's history | Northumberland | National Trust

His most famous book is "History of British Birds" from which I enclose the page about Kestrels or Windhover as he calls him very precisely.