Breakfast is Served

A female Peregrine flies back into her home patch early AM with a freshly caught Jackdaw prey

She is immediately mobbed by her fledgling who is looking for an aerial prey hand-over.

But the adult bird is hungry too and she know that if she hands it over to the fledgling it will not be willing to share so she lands at a well used pluming point to retain control.

She plucks the kill and serves the fledgling a good feed before taking off with the prey heading for a new perch point where she can hopefully feed herself in peace.

After the adult female has eaten the fledgling comes back on the scene and this time is allowed to escape with the final remains of the kill to consume at its leisure.