My, how you’ve grown (5) … another update on the Peregrines

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1 December 2013

Ed: TT ran out of time to post all the amazing pictures. Here’s a selection …

November 19

Soaking up the early sun

Mum makes a brief visit … rolling away after touchdown

Brecky can still be civilised

November 20

Play-catching and killing has started in earnest

November 21

Both these chicks have starlings

Mock control and killing … there is an instinct to grasp the prey so the kill can be made with a bite to the neck

November 22

Dad’s starling is grabbed as it hits the ledge

Crouching in the proper take-off position

November 23

Mum does a close fly-past closely watched by offspring

Being a chick involves long periods of doing little … interrupted by brief periods of wild excitement …

… such as another newly-fledged starling

November 24

Actually getting airborne

The first fight over food recorded …

… followed by a reflection of three personalities

The chicks are getting very game now and can fall off such a small, crowded ledge … but they can fly well enough to safely crash-land

November 25

Comparing the folded wing with the fail shows the tail is ahead in growth

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