While on an early AM visit to cliffs along the south coast of Cornwall where I had been watching the progress of this years fledgling Peregrine, The adult female Peregrine returned to the cliffs just as they were exposed to the rising sun,
Several months ago I watched for my first time as a buzzard in this area spread its wings on a sun soaked rock ledge presumably to warm up in the morning sunshine and this is exactly what the Peregrine did on this occasion.
The Peregrine spread its wings and flattened its body down on to dead soft grasses that had died on the ledge due to the current drought conditions,
To an untrained eye this would probably look like a peregrine on a nest but this female is already well clear of raising her fledglings for this year and they do not use any nesting material anyway.
She stayed in this wing spread stance for upwards of thirty minutes before regaining her feet and flying off a few minutes later presumably now all warmed up to start her day.
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