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What is this bird please.

Julie C
04/12/2019 14:35

Hello, can someone identify his bird please? i saw it sitting at the top of our grain barn doors. 

Thankyou....

  • 04/12/2019 14:40
    Hi Julie. It's a Kestrel and a female by the look of it.
    A good bird to have around as it will help to keep the rodent population under control
  • 04/12/2019 14:44
    Thanks Tony, that’s fab. Do you happen to know if it hunts during the day or night? We certainly could do with keeping a lid on the rodent population near us!
  • 04/12/2019 15:09

    You could probably do with trying to attract a Barn Owl because they hunt by night. Is there anywhere nearby or even in the barn where you could install a Barn Owl nest box? The Barn Owl Trust could advise you if you were interested in going down that path.

  • 04/12/2019 17:39 in reply to TeeJay
    We hear an owl hooting at night close by. I don’t think it nests in the grain barn as it’s disused and locked up, so probably another building? There are field shelters and an old pole barn very close by, and some disused dairy buildings along the lane, so maybe it is nesting in one of those. We had a number of surveys carried out recently by an experienced ecologist, including bird surveys. There was no sign of kestrels at that time, so maybe this female was patrolling her patch and she actually nests in/on one of the other buildings along the lane?
    Thankyou so much for your help, it’s been really useful and interesting.