This series of pictures show the tircel bringing a live pigeon back to the cathedral. As he is much smaller than the female he some times struggles to gain altitude with larger prey as was the case during this event.
He flew around the tower twice, continually calling for the falcon to assist. She was in the scrape feeding the chicks "kinda busy". Eventually he lost grip of the pigeon which dived for cover in the old police station adjacent to the cathedral green.
You can see in the final pictures the peregrine is grasping onto the primary feathers just before the pigeon breaks free. This was one lucky pigeon that quickly went to ground and lived to see another day. Both adult peregrines carried out a search in an attempt to locate and recapture the pigeon all be it to no avail.
Just to give an indication of the time this took to unfold, I took 85 pictures over of 1 minute.
3 comments:
Jon, thats a super series of pics, truly a lucky pigeon to survive.
Unbelievable sequence of photographs well done to the person who took them :)
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sharing.
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