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and pushed each head first into a cylinder fashioned from old juice cans. Once in jthe cans, the bird immediately ceased struggling, i Jones explained that they felt comfortable and secure with the tight, dark fit.
Inside, the box was a mess. Jones was right—kestrels do make lousy housekeepers.
Ted Manwaring couldn’t have been happier, however, at finding the box full of June bug and Japanese beetle carcasses. “I’m sure glad somebody eats those pests,” he said, addipg that hungry Japanese beetles had turned the leaves on his grape vines into lace.
Along with the bugs, kestrels dine on mice, moles, grasshoppers and other insects, Jones said. Stories of kestrels attacking chicken 'flocks are old wives tales, at least in this day, he maintained. The charges may have had some truth 20 and 30 j years ago when chickens were | (Continued on Page 9)
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