This happy looking juvenile Peregrine has just eaten its fill from a large pigeon on the rock behind it,
The prey had been presented by one of its two hungry parents thirty minutes before to allow the young bird the first pickings,
Now the two adult birds want their share of the kill but it seems that the juvenile is getting a bit possessive regarding the prey when a adult flies in to retrieve it>
The patient parent decides to give way to the juvenile perhaps thinking it was still hungry.
But the juvenile is full and starts to clean off its beak in some stone crop vegetation which is a sure sign to the parent birds that it has finished eating.
And then from an amusing head upside down angle the juvenile spots a parent bird coming back for the prey again !!
The juvenile goes all possessive over the prey again and once more the adult bird back off without taking the prey.
No sooner had the adult bird left when the juvenile had a sudden change of mind and flew from the location leaving the prey.
Both of the hungry adult birds flew in simultaneously to claim the prey and it was the smaller agile male that latched onto the large Pigeon which was lifted to be taken to one of their favoured plucking points where they will both get their deserved share of the spoils.
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