• I READ the article (It’s a bird eat bird world for pigeon ‘pest’, January 26) with fascination and awe for those who were lucky enough to see the Harris’s Hawk, a magnificent bird of prey, in Hatton Garden, Holborn.

I also read it with equal confusion as to why anyone would want to complain about it predating pigeons and wood pigeons, both of which are plentiful in London and the reason we also have nesting peregrine falcons.

If only the Harris’s Hawk could predate the equally plentiful corvid population in WC1. For the past two summers I have witnessed magpies and jays raid the nests of goldfinches and wrens in our garden and that, I can assure you, is way more distressing than a natural cull of pigeons, which are not only plentiful compared to tits and finches, but also considered a pest for hygiene and dropping erosion reasons.

K DAVENPORT, WC1