The amazing Peregrine fledgling above at just six weeks old already has the flight skill of much older birds studied over the last few years.
In the image below the same bird has just flown to the top of a southern cliff face with a jackdaw prey that was provided via an aerial hand-over a few minutes earlier.
For a young bird it has excellent flight skills to land right on the edge of the cliff while carrying large prey.
The juvenile tucks into the prey and is later joined by its mother that provided the prey and now wants her share of the meal.
The mother is quite patient when the juvenile get possessive over the prey but after a while she muscles in and takes control.
Both birds feed together for a while and then the adult female leaves the juvenile which already has s0igns of an extended crop to clear up the bits that are left.
But the juvenile takes off as well and gives chase to the adult female perhaps thinking that she had taken the prey with her
The adult bird returns to the prey again and is quite aggressively followed by the juvenile which seems to be a little hard to please today !!
No comments:
Post a Comment