Peregrines at play

 Problems with windows 10 have brought my blogging to a standstill but it hasn't stopped me from my photography. Over the past week I have paid many visits to the peregrines and have enjoyed the spectacle of the young birds at play.

 Don't quite know what the game was but they certainly enjoyed playing it.

The lower bird loved turning upside down and did it several times.

Worn out after playing for about 20 minutes they settled down to wait for their evening meal. The pictures were taken with a 600m lens with 2x converter and of course hand held at a distance of about 400ft.
Just as a matter of interest I've scrapped windows 10 and reverted to  7pro.

Barn owl

Popping down the road this evening to check on perigrine family No 2 and waiting around for almost an hour this chappie turned up. He entertained me for some time.

He made several sorties into the long grass but to no avail he caught nothing.

He came quite close on occasion and was not bothered by my presence.

Meanwhile I realised I was not the only observer, a perigrine was watching him too.           

Juniors first kill

 I am not so sure this youngster killed this common tern by himself but he certainly brought it home.

 He stood proudly over it for a few minutes before inviting a sister/brother to share the meal.

I suppose you could say he was doing his sister/brother a good tern. (Sorry about the poor joke.)

2nd Nest now fledged.

 Checked on peregrine nest No2 this evening to find that they are now leaving the nest and are becoming more independant. To reach this point they have flown about 50ft up the side of the cliff.

When I arrived they had just finished their evening meal, the remains of which can be seen on the left. 25 years ago when I first moved to Sussex I would have to travel to Wales to see peregrines on a daily basis and now I get them flying over my house and I know of several nest sites close to my home.