We spent weeks living alongside our kestrel family and watched the initial fight between two pairs for the nesting area, then the mating, sitting on the eggs and then the frantic feeding. The five chicks fledged and stayed in a tree at the bottom of the donkey field for about a week but now they have gone. Not to be seen so closely by us till next year. It would be lovely to know how many of the five survive but I am told that the chances are only that one or two will survive till next Spring. I cannot help thinking that number 5 ( no, I did not give them names ) who was so much smaller than the rest does not stand a good chance but I wish him or her well.
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