23 AUGUST 1902, Page 19

A KESTREL AND A WAGTAIL.

[TO THB EDITOR OF TRH u.srsoraroa."3 SIR,—It may interest some of your readers to know that in this garden a young kestrel hawk is being nourished and brought up by a water-wagtail. The little bird runs about on the lawn all day long collecting food, which it constantly takes to the hawk as it site on the grass or perches on a rail within a few feet of our windows. The hawk is sufficiently fledged to be able to fly from tree to tree. How it comes to be here and so dependent on charity I do not know, but its clamorous chirping to be fed has become a familiar sound in the garden.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Stony Stratford Vicarage, Bucks.

HENRY LAST.