30 AUGUST 1902, Page 19

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR :]

Sra,—Your correspondent from Stony Stratford who writes in the Spectator of August 23rd about a young kestrel hawk being fed by a water-wagtail will be interested to hear that I have been witness to a precisely similar scene in this garden. I was inclined to think that the bird must be a cuckoo that had been brought up in the wagtail's nest, but it was un- doubtedly a young kestrel, and I hope that some of your readers may be able to offer some explanation for this un- natural attachment between these birds, so different in their character and habits.—I am, Sir,. &c.,