What a noise this morning.

Scrapping birds, the nuisance birds, a couple of magpies have appeared on the tree which the kestrels perch on just outside the nest. Fortunately just two of them, but they attack the kestrels and fly in the air screeching, it is a fight for territory and terrain. Only so many voles, crickets and lizards in the fields and those aggressive black and white chaps want them.
The kestrels are not nesting yet but mating in the normal mating tree, having a bit of a fling before settling down to the responsibilities of parenthood.
We hope the two aggressive birds will not make our pair decide to find a new spot.
Update at 9.30  The kestrels won that battle and Mrs K is sitting on the doorstep of the nest, watching Mr K sitting on guard in the tree about 3 metres away.

He looks on from the tree and isn't the lichen on the tree beautiful as well as the bird

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