Our Kestrel family is fast becoming our major bird success. We only have 10 acres, so getting a pair of kestrels and five young in our first summer was wonderful. The reason we got them was because we put up a box, but also because we had masses of voles in our soft rush-dominated back field. That’s all you need really – a nesting site and voles. Surprisingly, our kestrels also caught newts, rats, shrews and even the odd chick.