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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hers in turn. About8 a.m. he was calling for food for quite ten minutes. At 9.20he alighted on B with a puffin in his beak. He put it under histalons and looked round. Then he picked it up in his beak againand jumped down into the eyrie. About midday one male andfemale were very lively, raising themselves and. bobbing their headsforward, peering and scowling like adults. The sixth feed wasa puffin, at 3.20 p.m., in the middle of which the Falcon startedthe alarm, and the Tiercel immediately began to feed desperatelyagainst time, as Booth describes. He shot out of the eyrie onlya few seconds before the relief party appeared. In Atkinsons watch, from May 25th to May 26th, the onlyfresh incidents recorded were a meal off a pigeon, early in themorning, which lasted twenty-seven minutes, and when the youngwere gorged, the Tiercel had a good meal himself. After the mealhe carried off the remains. After another meal he stood on Bfor seventy-five minutes, during the whole of which time he had
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