Grey Heron's skillful decent

While I was watching the Peregrine in the previous blog yesterday, A Grey Heron glided out from above the 50m cliffs that they were perched on and started to make a slow declining circuit down towards the water level below,

Its slow decent suddenly became a tight vertical spiral of just a couple of metres with the Heron dropping like a stone and I was not quick enough to catch the spiral action or pinpoint the Peregrine locations and I wondered if the Heron had just seen them or perhaps experienced attacks from the Peregrine that were intently watching it on previous occasions.

The Heron stalled its fall within a few metres of the shoreline as shown in the montage image above and opted to fly out over the water several metres to a single rock that was projecting above the waterline,   This once again seemed like a repeated defence tactic as Peregrine do not like ending up struggling with their prey in or over the water,

The Heron settled down as did the Peregrine both of which had taken prey in the previous hour anyway,

The images posted below were all used to produce the flight sequence montage posted above,