Identifier: cu31924084757206 (find matches)
Title: The peregrine falcon at the eyrie
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Heatherley, Francis
Subjects: Peregrine falcon
Publisher: London, "Country life" (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he was using looked like scraps, and I had not heard himor the Falcon give the food cry, I concluded it was the remainderof the 8.8 a.m. meal. He swallowed the last pieces himself,including a leg. As this would make the quarry three-legged,I expect the young female must have disgorged hers while she wasbeing brooded. This feed only lasted two or three minutes. Ihad a bad bout of coughing just about this time owing to sometobacco smoke going the wrong way ; but although he evidentlyheard me, cocking his head on one side and looking puzzled, he wasnot in any way upset, for which I was sincerely grateful. At9 a.m. it stopped raining, but there was no sun. At 9.46 he gotoff the young, jumped on to C and flew off. I heard him wailingin the distance ; it sounds exactly like the hungry whimper of thefull-fledged young—a long-drawn way-ee, and is the food cry;Three minutes later I heard his wings close as he dropped into theeyrie with a plucked and partly-skinned puffin. I identified it by
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