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Kestrel taking shelter at the wrong hotel.

Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
edited February 2020 in Wildlife gardening
It was very windy yesterday so this Kestrel decided to take shelter at the owl hotel within our garden.
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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Offical AirBnB
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Do you get owls in there?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • dave125dave125 Posts: 178
    As well as Owls, that's a perfect nesting site for a pair of kestrels. Also potentially Jackdaws and Stock Doves.
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    Owl long did it stay there? 🥴
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    Owl long - roughly 2 hours, and no he didn't pay - in fact last time "it" came (could have been one of this Kestrels cousins) he ate the residents - how rude was that!  Last year pigeons made their nest in this owl box and a kestrel ate the chicks. I wonder what activity we will see this year - if any.  A Barn owl used the box for a few years but we haven't seen one for at least 3 years now.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    A good use for pigeons.
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    Not this time Phillippa - enjoying your sense of humour. The sacrificial pigeon chicks were worth the sight of the Kestrel, although some may find it disturbing. In fact a Kestrel killed an adult pig a few weeks ago - even the cat wasn't interested in the carcass - with very little meat left on it. What a yucky subject. Sorry to anyone eating their supper.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Adult pig 🐖 ?!😱

    🤔... guinea pig / cavy ?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    That threw me too, the world's most powerful kestrel! I guess the dreaded autocorrect has changed it from pigeon to pig.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    That would be one angry kestral.
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