I like seeing Kestrels

Yup, my favorite.
Although I still call them sparrow hawks.

Barn owl nest in my deer stand

Ditto. Always had one every summer when I was a kid (early '70's). There was a grove of cottonwood trees below our house where they would always nest and without fail spring storms would blow limbs off and expose a nest or two. I would usually get one of the little guys real young and they were easy to raise. They would spend most of the day in the neighbor's spruce tree hunting/chasing sparrows. When I would step out the back door with some bits of fresh meat, I would whistle and they would fly across our neighbor's property to ours and land on my fist. I must have raised a half dozen of them over that time and every one of them behaved the same way. Very attached to me all summer and then in late fall they would just be gone one day. I had several great horned owls too but found them to never get very tame. Seems like once they could fly real well they would just drift away one day (or night) and would never be seen again. I had several red tails and they are great rodent hunters. They eat like a teenage boy though and it was always a struggle for a kid on a bicycle to scrounge up enough fresh meat for them until they got to where they could hunt on their own.

Ya, I was a Sam Gribley Wanna Be.

Dr Chamberlain, UGA turkey expert, related one study they had several hens fitted with telemetry equipment, along with a couple of gray foxes, several coons, and a couple of skunks. He said a pair of nesting great horned owls killed every one of them.