monkeyman
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Working at my computer, I happened to glance out of the window. The sky is a beautiful shade of winter blue and the sun is setting in dazzling pink and gold to my right.
We have a lot of pigeon fanciers around here and I was idly watching a flock of "tumblers" about four hundred yards to the south when I realised they weren't tumbling but trying to evade a sickle-shaped blur that dived through the middle of them. It was a peregrine! I snatched my bins and followed the falcon as he swooped and turned and finally snatched a straggler. Feathers flew everywhere!
With his dinner clutched firmly in his talons he turned and very obligingly flew towards me and over the house to the north.
Peregrines are quite common here, usually flying overhead, but I have never witnessed one actually kill before.
Makes up for not being able to go out with JohnJ today!
We have a lot of pigeon fanciers around here and I was idly watching a flock of "tumblers" about four hundred yards to the south when I realised they weren't tumbling but trying to evade a sickle-shaped blur that dived through the middle of them. It was a peregrine! I snatched my bins and followed the falcon as he swooped and turned and finally snatched a straggler. Feathers flew everywhere!
With his dinner clutched firmly in his talons he turned and very obligingly flew towards me and over the house to the north.
Peregrines are quite common here, usually flying overhead, but I have never witnessed one actually kill before.
Makes up for not being able to go out with JohnJ today!