A beautiful day today in Derby. Most of the time the peregrines just sat on the tower. One youngster dropped some prey off the ledge at the top where the gargoyles are, then did a diving swoop in an attempt to try and capture it. A few of us watchers thought that would be the last we saw of that little one, but he emerged over the wall on the nave roof - flying well after only 1 week.
The close-up tower shots were taken using a digiscoping setup: Kowa TSN4 + 30X wide eyepiece and a Nikon coolpix 995.
The following pictures show 005 (ring number) in flight and landing with his brother 004 admiring his skills, or at the very least we were.
At around 11:00am the female adult bird flew from the tower screeching.
A buzzard was seen souring on the thermals about 300m away. The following pictures show what happened next. The buzzard is the bird with the wider wings that seems to like flying upside down.
The female returned after a short while unharmed.
5 comments:
Great pictures Jon.
I wish I could have been there to see the buzzard being seen off.
Graham.
Wonderful pics John! I will put a
link on my Blog. I thought so the flying ones are 004 and 005, you do confirm that.
Great shots of the territorial dispute with the buzzard!!
Froona
Nice photos Jon - keep up the good work!!
Andy & Chris
Excellent Peregrine shots Jon! Are you using a digiscope setup for the flight shots as well? If so, major kudos to you!
No Jim, I wish I could but at 60-120x optical zoom the event would have ended by the time I locked on.
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