Fortunately after the cloudy and foggy yesterday, today the sun was shining. And the juvies for sure did a lot of catching up. Together with the falcon and tiercel they have been active all day. So a lot of beautiful shots!
Highlights of the day:
In the early morning before 7 the tiercel entered the scrape and started scraping a bowl. ( Slideshow 1) The falcon however could not be persuaded to get down from the pud to join him. She was enjoying the early morning sunshine. But was disturbed by a juvie begging for food, so she took off immediately. Just look at her face when she sees him.
The parents get really annoyed by the aggresive way of begging. Even though these parents provide in a lot of food. I have seen how juvies not even wake up when one of the parents land on the pud. Their crops are very full!
At 10:30 the tiercel delivered a big prey to 2 juvies who where sleeping in the scrape. A third one was sunbathing on top of the sundaymorning Cathedral.The two in the scrape pull the prey to the richts side of the nestbox, out of sight.
One of the juvies is getting the prey back to the left side of the nestbox around 13:00. The other is still there but waits. Is this Tiddler, real Tiddler behaviour, this waiting. One juvie takes off.
Arounf half 3 one of the adults comes in the nestbox with fresh prey and starts plucking. Within minuts joined by 2 juvies. The third one still up the pud. The afternoon passes without highlights
Finally all 4 at the same time, 3 on top of the pud, one in the scrape. I have been wondering why we never see the 4 at once.
Around 7 2 juvies in the nestbox enjoying eachother and having fun. Juvies love to watch eachother and are very interested in the other one. They love to touch and play. Finally they leave and land on top.
The tiercel lands in the nestbox and starts again digging a bowl in the scrape and leaves.
One of the juvies enters the box, on top 2 juvies are very clearly visable, when the wing of the fourth juvie moves. 4! At last.
Read all about the Derby Peregrines on the Derby Blog:
http://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/
And do visit the Derby Photo Blog of Jon Salloway. He has amazing photo's of the Derby peregrines.:
http://derby-peregrines.blogspot.com/
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