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Message: <blockquote data-quote="joannec" data-source="post: 1233639" data-attributes="member: 30076">Nice post Symphony....totally agree.  For me this week it was a visit to some nesting peregrines on a cliff face.  I arrived at just the perfect time.  Parent was feeding the chicks, who are adult size and fully feathered and just on the point of fledging.  She had fed one who was full and content and busy exercising its wings.  She was ever so delicately picking off bits of bloody dead pigeon or whatever it was and in the most caring, intimate way feeding the chick.  I watched this domestic drama for some time until the chick was full and Mum flew off with the remains in her talons to a nearby ledge to finish off the breakfast....it was just magical and a delight.Joanne</blockquote>