Monday, 14 May 2012
Raven Mad!
Went for a nice walk today on my own armed with just my camera. Wasnt sure what I was going to photograph, usually a bad sign as I prefer to plan, but just stopped the car and began walking. An hour later I arrived at a quarry. Now where there's a quarry there's often a peregrine so I scanned the quarry walls for almost an hour until I saw the tell tale white breast of a bird high up on the opposite quarry face. I walked round to get a better vantage point making sure to stay well away from what I suspected was a peregrine. I found a nice elevated grass area and peeped through a gorse bush, placed my camera to my eye and scanned the quarry again. Yes, definitely a peregrine. Another 10 minutes of looking revealed another peregrine, and 2 possible nests!
All was fairly quiet until.....A raven flies in to one of the nests, the 2 peregrines take off and squawking angrily, dive bomb the raven in the nest for a good 2 minutes before the raven leaves. It was like the Battle of Britain, except nobody got hurt...this time. When I got home I downloaded my photos and cropped them revealing that the other nest had a 2 or 3 new born peregrines in it. What an afternoon! The photo is very poor quality as I've cropped it to within an inch of its life, but you get the picture! The Raven's the black shape and just to the right above and below are two angry peregrines.
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