Back on the 14th July in a blog relating to Peregrine prey hand-overs I showed the above image of a somewhat reckless juvenile Peregrine swooping down on a passing Grey heron which screeched and changed direction.
Far from being fazed by the experience the Heron dropped down onto the very rocks that the local south coast family of Peregrine regularly use as a look out point to hunt their prey.
Following an initial look around the bird went into a long slow process where it appeared to be resetting its powerful beak which I have often seen after a heron has made a strike but missed its victim which on this occasion might have been the cheeky young Peregrine had it not backed off.
The bird was then quite relaxed and started to preen its feathers and accepted me gradually moving ever closer on an open clifftop which afforded me no cover, I then took a few preening shots before backing off and leaving this very confident bird to carry on with its preening
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