My last blog showed a female Peregrine take and devour a Black-headed Gull on a south Cornish Coast cliff ledge.
Well today history repeated itself but this time her mate a smaller male Peregrine saw the action and followed her into the ledge and waited patiently for twenty minutes for a share of the prey,
The female showed no signs of wanting to share and put herself between the prey and the male to guard it.
The hungry male took off and looped to the opposite side of the female and prey so that the prey was now between them.
The female was still warning the male off but with the prey now in front of him he lunged in, grabbed it and took off in one swift movement.
The female who's crop was now well extended suggesting that she had taken her fill was no longer complaining and seemed happy to watch the male consume what was left on the prey on another ledge just a few metres away.
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