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Very picturesque stretch!

About 30 years ago I found a dead kestrel by the side of the A303 and took it home.
It was the first bird I reduced to a skeleton. I put it in a plastic box the would allow insects in, and hung it near the exhaust of my central heating as it was late autumn.
It had a ring on it, and I reported it to the RSPB. Still got the skeleton! And the flight feathers.