Meet Kaz, the New Zealand Falcon: Felton Road's new bird deterrent system for the 2013 vintage

It is a perpetual problem for vignerons and a highly expensive one, both in loss if crop and requiring very costly netting or futile acoustic sound deterrents, both of which these clever scavenging Aves quickly learn to ignore.

There is however, a more natural approach, indeed almost ridiculously logical, a bird of prey to scare others away. Except, that…