We are already protecting quite a number of predators, such as buzzards, owls, kestrels and so on.
I have seen kestrels take small birds of all kinds, but only very occasionally.
The kestrel is most useful, yet today kestrels will hang on gamekeepers' gibbets.
Five species including sparrowhawks and kestrels had increased in numbers.
The kestrel and several species of owl are doing a good deal better now than they were 10 years ago.
There is no bird more useful in keeping down field voles than the kestrel.
My agent found a kestrels' nest in a church tower a fortnight ago which contained a quantity of bones of game and poultry.
The species were lanner falcon, kestrel, various birds of the parrot family, skins of tiger, leopard, serval and genet, and cactus plants.
