A Lesser Kestrel was found in Cornwall at a place called Croft Pascoe Woods late afternoon last Friday. This is another bird that I have a little history with having dipped one in Yorkshire a few years back. It’s the best part of a four hour drive from home so twitching it on Friday was simply not practical. We again had family with us over the weekend so I had to beg forgiveness from my long suffering wife for a Saturday twitch. Now this was going to be a long drive with considerable jeopardy attached. Unlike, say, a rare leaf warbler, where if your prepared to stare at a hedge for hours on end until you start to hallucinate, there’s a good chance you will see it, falcons are by definition very mobile and so can very easily move on. Some comfort could be taken from the fact that it had been observed going to roost into pines late on Friday night at the reported location. Given the above, I decided to not ri...
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