9 June 2021
The south side chick, the only one to this new pair of falcons fledged this morning at 9:40 AM traversing the face of the Rock from left to right in a smooth glide landing on a chalky bluff 300 yards from the nest site. The landing was on a near vertical face with no crashing or tumbling, he stuck the landing! A few more short fifty yard flights ending with the last on the top of a large boulder on the sky line.
Soon everyone started to show up. All this time the adult female had been flying overhead in large circles chasing gulls and vultures or anything that might come near her young. She at times would stoop on her chick trying to get it to fly more. The young would not budge.
She later brought the chick a small shore bird. Everyone was thrilled to see it rip into the prey. After consuming all the body and organs, he then swallowed each leg whole, thighs, leg and toes!
Happy trails, Bob
Item: Jack and Petra Clayton have a Flickr website where you can see her latest photos of the peregrines. Trying to adjust the shorebird leg to gulp it down takes some juggling!
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