Wow CG. Those are amazing pictures. The falcon is like a scythe. The victim never sees it coming. Falcon just slams into it, knifes it and rides it into the ground.... Falcons are amazing flyers. The Coopers used to eat my pigeons in a tree. I would find feathers in the wooded lot next door.
Yes. Kestrels are way too small to threaten pigeons, (As would be a Sharp Shinned...) I just would never do anything to help set some young person on that dark path.... Peregrines were always an assumed problem although you would never see one, the chase would be far out and probably high up...
You don't know me too well obviously. LOL. I am an ex pigeon guy...... I would no sooner give it to a falconer, than I would .... lets just say, that is not an option I would consider.
That is horrifically goulish.... That is the kind of thing that makes me say I would SSS if you can manage it. (I know... nature is natural.... blah blah) .... I would blast it to the next life. But that would be a tiny target.... (maybe get a badminton racket). How close can you get to it...