My, how you’ve grown (4) … another update on the Peregrines

November 12

Mum arrives with a starling and the day begins for the chicks

A lovely stretch shows off the rapidly developing flight feathers and the shoulder, elbow and wrist joins and the paragium,the skin stretching

A youngster contemplates its huge feet

Nope … not much better from this angle, either

Mantling (an attempt by a chick to cover its food), while it tries to feed itself, both first records for this brood

November 14:

The starlings have gone to ground in the wet … so it’s a noisy miner

November 18

A late breakfast of starling

… and another. At one month old the chicks are rapidly getting their juvenile feathers of streaked brown

The male arrives without food and cops frantic begging. The relative size shows the chicks are all females, which are larger than males

Lined up for dinner … oldest by a day or so in the middle, youngest two flanking

Dad does a fancy touch and go

The juvenile streaked breasts clearly showing

Adult pair in context with female near peak and male, bottom

THE PEREGRINE FALCONS ON TASMANIAN TIMES:

• An extraordinary Picture Essay: The nesting Peregrine Falcons …

• My, how you’ve grown … an update on the Peregrines

• My, how you’ve grown (2) … another update on the Peregrines

• My, how you;ve grown (3) … another update on the Peregrines