

Kestrel: The Farmer's Friend
I was once asked by an interviewer, "If you could come back as an animal, what would you be?" " If a bird," I replied, "I’d want to be an American kestrel. Why? Just watch one for a while!" Swift fliers (and they can hover!), resourceful, and spectacular in form and color, kestrels are a delight to behold. They also take well to artificial breeding sites. So if you have the right habitat, put up a nest box designed for this smallest of American falcons and you ma

Bruce Smith
Jan 41 min read