Static Pages

▼

Friday, 15 January 2016

Posing Peregrine

While it is still a month or more before our peregrines start to get into breeding mode, things are quiet at the cathedral.
Both adults were seen on Jurys Inn recently - so it is good to know they are both still around.
There's been no recent news from Rutland Water about our bird 030 (see previous post).
So, instead, here's an intriguing photo of a peregrine posing on a bridge near Glasgow in Scotland, the photo taken in July by a traffic monitoring camera belonging to Traffic Scotland!
They were quite surprised to find this adult bird (which looks like a male to me) posing right in front of their lens.

"Am I in your way?"


Nick B (DWT)
at

11 comments:

  1. Anonymous15 January 2016 at 21:23

    Surely Robert De Niro. You looking at me?

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous16 January 2016 at 05:29

    He is so cute!
    I'm looking forward for new breeding season in Derby.
    Olga.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Helen16 January 2016 at 08:12

    Some great images of a snowy owl in flight were also captured on a traffic camera recently in Montreal, Canada.

    http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/08/montreal-traffic-camera-captures-stunning-images-of-snowy-owl-in-flight

    ReplyDelete
  4. Kate16 January 2016 at 08:21

    Thanks Nick
    Have just captured one of ours on scrape missed the actual delivery Doh!uploaded to Flkr
    Kate

    ReplyDelete
  5. Hether16 January 2016 at 11:19

    Wonder if the traffic police caught his (ringed) number plate, especially if he was doing over 100 miles per hour down the motorway but, of course, that's only in dive mode!

    Hope last season's brood are surviving and getting used to the cold weather.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Hilary. B'ham16 January 2016 at 11:37

    Rather a lot of big feathers on the scrape at 11.30 this morning. The bird still there admiring the view is probably too full to take off.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Nick Brown (DWT)16 January 2016 at 11:46

    Hi All: thanks for your comments - good to know there are still people watching our birds and our blog even in these (now cold) winter days!
    Hilary: indeed, a fair scattering of feathers...but no sign of the carcase!
    Looks like the male bird to me.
    Hether: love the analogy between number plates and rings....
    I don't know what max. speed a peregrine has been recorded at in level flight, does anyone else? I do know that a swift has been recorded at 70 mph, so that's just on the motorway speed limit isn't it!
    Nick B (DWT)

    ReplyDelete
  8. Kate16 January 2016 at 14:25

    For those who missed seeing him this morning I have put a few captures on FLKR

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/99180967@N04/?

    ReplyDelete
  9. Phoebe16 January 2016 at 22:32

    Nice capture Kate!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Kate17 January 2016 at 06:41

    Brr!!!! no wonder he stocked the larder and his tum yesterday.( Do they know more about the weather, than we ?)

    At least Nick will not need to fetch the 'Hot Water Bottele' today CHOL:):)

    ReplyDelete
  11. Helen17 January 2016 at 09:31

    Just managed a quick screen capture of the male peregrine sitting on the snow covered platform this morning.

    www.flickr.com/photos/94928963@N08/23804480544/in/pool-derbyperegrines/

    ReplyDelete