Monday 23 April 2018

Peregrine aerial prey hand-over


A few days ago I had the good fortune to capture an aerial prey hand over between a pair of Peregrine,  In the first shot above the smaller male bird has dropped prey which the female grabbed within  her large talons before it had fallen a metre,

The female then flew in my direction and landed on a favoured plucking ledge to dispatch the remnants of a luckless pigeon.

The Male bird had already taken his share of the prey before handing it over so he left the female to finish off the rest.














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