Peregrine falcon

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Now I really need to get my friend Stui kilted! He has been doing falconry with his family since I met him back in grade school.

He now works in the Northern Territory of Australia at a raptor rehab and education centre.

One of his personal birds is a hybrid peregrine/prairie falcon (or as he calls her a "Prairie-grin" falcon) named Frightful.

Edit: I knew he had sent me this picture a while back!

[Panache]

Scott,

An excellent bird!

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[GMan]

One majestic bird.

[Derek]

Great pic of what is a superb bird. We are lucky here where we live too, in that just over half hour drive from us there is a disused quarry, where there has been a nesting pair for the last several years and also in a little outcrop of crags up in Waterfall country similar. In the clock tower of the main City Hall building in the centre of the city, it was in our newspaper earlier this year that a pair of peregrines had set up nest there too. I never saw them whenever I passed although there have been many in the park in front of the hall with bins and telescopes. There was a programme many years ago about a pair of peregrines who nest annually and use the centre of London as their habitat. They obviously latch on to a good food source and seem quite prepare to put up with the traffic noise, pollution etc.
Iechyd Da
Derek

[Jimmy]

Where exactly are they, I know the area near Dunbeth Park, I used to work in Coatbridge College a few years back, Next time I am in Bellshill, I may take a trip over to see them.

[skauwt]

Where exactly are they, I know the area near Dunbeth Park, I used to work in Coatbridge College a few years back, Next time I am in Bellshill, I may take a trip over to see them.

the high rise flats in coatbridge town centre you cant miss them only time youll spot them is when its bucketing down they just sit out the heavy rain on those roof tops sometimes you may see them head out to the lochs or towards cumbernauld

[WeaselMender]

Excelent pic. My wifes desire when we become rich and famous is to have enough land to erect a proper mews and start into raptor rehab.

Weasel :ootd:

[skauwt]

well folks as promised i got some images of the young peregrine falcon practicing its flying dive if i had a better view point id take avideo but i dont think that would look well if folk saw me from the neighboring flats

im some ways im disappointed with these pics but in other ways im over joyed with them the birds going so fast i guess im lucky to get clear photos at all though im sorry for the size of these pics but you need to see the scale to understand the image more i reckon

anyways enjoy " a wee peek at`a coatbrigg burdie"

[Highlander31]

It's always good to see those birds in an urban environment. When I lived in San Jose, California. We lived in an area known as Blossom Valley. The foothills were only a couple of blocks away. Our neighborhood was part of hunting area for a pair of falcons. We were lucky enough to video tape a falcon taking a mourning dove from our back yard.