D U R I N G T H E W I N T E R of 1958-59 I collected 113 pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) beneath roosts in a disused quarry near the Dale estuary, Pembrokeshire. The quarry is on a steep bracken-covered hillside surrounded by farmland and the saltings and lagoons of the estuary. Buzzards {Buteo buteo) have also roosted in it from time to time, and both they and Kestrels frequently hunt ove...
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