It has been the oddest hatching this year of our baby kestrels. Normally things for as long as we have owned this house, 6 years and the former owner told us 10 years before that, the kestrels have nested in the walls of the second house. When we had the house pointed / jointed we made sure the builders left the hole untouched. We think this year we have a young pair, very much in love as they spent so much time in "the coupling tree" and then feeding each other, that we wondered if we would ever get young. Two other things are different, the flight path in to the hole in the wall and the whole nesting area has not been kept as clean as other years. Faeces can be seen piled up at the entrance and although we have seen a bit of cleaning going on, just not enough. At which point I feel guilty and most go and do the ironing and mop the doggy footprints up in the hall and a visitor just arrived sniffed and said " wet doggy smell, just like my house" so air freshener must be sprayed. If anyone wants to take photos, from now to next week is the time. I think I can see a fourth chick right at the back.
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| Can you tell our Mum, we need the cleaner in ! |
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| One, two, three |
Malc has lightened the bottom photo for me but it looks as if they are behind a pane of glass.
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