So you have a rich new eco-fauna in the verges: kestrels hovering above them and hedgehogs pursuing their lawful occasion within them.
We are already protecting quite a number of predators, such as buzzards, owls, kestrels and so on.
Local authorities already have the right to refuse to let someone keep a kestrel in a built-up area.
I have actual proofs of the kestrel's poaching.
So far as that is concerned, the notoriously mischievous hawks, of which the kestrel is hardly one, receive no protection.
Five species including sparrowhawks and kestrels had increased in numbers.
Disease has also been diagnosed in a kestrel and in owls and partridges.
My agent found a kestrels' nest in a church tower a fortnight ago which contained a quantity of bones of game and poultry.
