KESTREL. 
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140. Tinmmcitlus aiatidarms. Kestrel. 
Windhover. Fanner. 
A common resident in all parts of the county and Isle 
of Wight. 
This bird is to be found nesting in a variety of situa- 
tions, but most frequently in the old nests of crows, mag- 
pies, or squirrels. Sometimes it chooses the bare hollow of 
a h'mb where it joins the trunk, and its eggs are not 
uncommonly found in hollow trees. Old buildings, 
churches, and ruins, are also selected, and in the Isle of 
Wight particularly, it nests plentifully in the cliffs along 
the whole coast line. Mr. Poole says that in the southern 
and south-eastern sides of the Island it seldom builds in 
trees, the Undercliff, Landslip, and Culvers providing ideal 
nesting places. 
Mr. W. H. Turle once procured a pure white egg from 
a nest near Andover, and a clutch of eight eggs from near 
King's Somborne. 
Munn has known one to lay again in the same nest 
shortly after the first clutch had been taken. 
A tame bird at Testcombe once laid in the garden 
there. Its numbers, no doubt, are considerably increased 
in spring and autumn by migrants, as both Mr. Meade- 
Waldo and Dr. Cowper have noted also. 
