peregrine falcon

Another shot from my close encounter with this Peregrine Falcon, it only lasted seconds but was well worth it.

Managed to capture my first Peregrine shot, pleased to get it in flight too! have a great weekend all. Busy day today...hope to catch up later

Post and run again this morning...We are off to Devon for a week, see y'all later.

Peregrine Falcon

Taken at the Joe river WMA.

This is one of Emma's five young falcons, seven weeks after fledging. Check out a video of the same at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KrA2Y99Z4s

Coming to the close of her biggest job yet--raising five young falcons this year. That is a lot of mouths to feed, wings to teach to fly and talons to train to hunt--all before they leave now in just a week or two. I call this mother falcon, Emma.

Post and run from me this morning, we're off to Lakenheath for the week...See y'all later.

I did a reccy for the "Sussex Peregrine Study" group on tuesday, got some nice close views of this young un honing its aerial skills by tipping wings with Herring Gulls, and just about anything that flew in its air space. A great time was had by me, as you all know these birds are me...

Racing away from her sibling to prevent morsel theft. I love the patterns on her flank--look like descending Peregrines!

I saw both the mother PF and her young one on the same edge of the bridge today, but they were too far apart to fit in the same frame. I photoshopped them together so that you could see the contrast between the mature adult and the immature PF. Note that the tan on the young one roughly...

Too close to get the whole PF, but had to share the detail. This is a Peregrine juvi "kicking out" of and down from a tree.

Juvi Peregrine Falcon with a food delivery from Mom. All full as you can see from the crop, but unwilling to let his sibs take advantage of any left-overs. Hasn't learned the trick of food caching yet.

For me 75,000th post, it had to be a shot of me very fave bird. Not the greatest of shots, but you can see this female has a very full crop in this acrobatic pose.

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum) An amazing 19 subspecies have been described while 17 are frequently recognized with subspecies anatum being the one mapped for Texas. Photographed southwest of Port Islabel, Cameron County, Texas, USA. Tidal influenced channel next to a loma...

Peregrine Falcon (juvenile)

About one week of flying so far--all five young are winging it well.

Papa teaches young how it's done--this is howie dewitt!

This young one along with four siblings just fledged last week. They are enjoying their new found freedom.

handheld; 0.00 EV; 1/4000s; f/8; ISO 400 During a morning walk on the hills close to home, I stopped for a while by a clearing in the woods covering the steep hillside, just in time to notice this falcon going to and fro ...