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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alan_rymer" data-source="post: 1302709" data-attributes="member: 329">My usual Saturday, but different, for me any way.Parked up in Sanford Lane ( Dinton Pastures, Berkshire ) and walked down the footpath by the side of the River Loddon to the gap in the hedge that allows you to look out over Lea Farm Gravel pit. Strange,  all the gulls are in a single group in the cente of the pit, so are the coot and ducks. Then I see it hurtling low over the pit, a lage Peregrine, chasing a Jackdaw. The Jackdaw managed to evade it, and so did numerous other Jackdaws, Carrion Crows, Stock Doves and Wood Pigeons, even Cormorants and two Buzzards over the next twenty minutes. It did knock feathers from one Jackdaw, but it didn't make a kill. It even landed a couple of times at the far side of the pit, but was spooked both times by a couple of Egyptian Geese.I don't see Peregrines often, maybe two or three time a year. But this was awsome. I took a couple of record Digiscoped shots whilst on the ground, a few at 3x max zoom on my Canon A640 whilst flying. These are the best of the shots. The rest of my morning was an anticlimax. Even the view of the Red Kite low over the back of the house!.</blockquote>