A noisy female Peregrine homes in on a male Peregrine that has just returned to his home cliffs from a hunt with a live juvenile Jackdaw in his talons.
The female immediately locks her talons onto the prey and a bit of a tug of war develops over its possession
The male probably wants his share of the prise but she has other ideas and a family to feed.
The male gives in and releases his grip to the thirty percent larger female as she adjusts her position to fly.
She now takes off with the luckless young jackdaw and flies it to her well used pluming site.
She kill the prey with a bite to the back of the neck and sets about plucking its feathers that will join the mass of plucked feather that can be seen present at this location before flying it on to her waiting hungry family,
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