Do you know if you were a kestrel, you would not be eating packaged rubbish from the supermarket and wondering what was actually in the tin foil dish. You would be out finding lizards, the bigger the better, yummy! those big green ones. A tasty frog, well we all like frogs legs. A mouse, does not matter if a shrew or doormouse, all tasty. Crickets, lovely and crunchy. Only occasionally if really struggling to find something, a little bird on the wing. ''We are not like sparrow hawks you know, our kestrel says.'' As feeding of the fledgling begins the variety of small animals multiplies making life easier. Bonny our golden, the year before last caught and killed a mole, so I put it on a fence post to be picked up and sure enough it was.
The kestrel pair are still ''at it '' on the tree but come often to eat their prey on the edge of the nesting hole.
If we are lucky any time now they will sign the ''compromis'' and in they will move for the tiring time of feeding, first a partner and then the young.
And if you are interested or not you will hear all about them.
Malc says Just seen a kestrel go in to the hole with a huge rat, so instead of ''toad in the hole'' rat .
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