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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ed for three hours, duringwhich he recorded three meals off small birds. I relieved him at4.30 p.m. F. Heatherleys watch, from May 30th to May 31st.—I tookBrowns place at 5 p.m., the puffin and shag being still on thetop rock. At 6.45 the Tiercel pitched on A. He stood there calling,and then flopped down into the eyrie with a thrush, but soon left,seeming uneasy, and flying straight out to sea. At 7.10 he cameflapping right across the eyrie into the gully leading from the topof the island. After a silence of some minutes he returned thesame way and dropped into the eyrie with an intact puffin. Ibelieve that this was the puffin I left on the top rock, as it was gonewhen I looked, after being relieved, although the shag was as Ihad placed it. The meal lasted twenty minutes, and at its close heagain flew straight out to sea. Looking out for an explanationof his scare, I found that an empty tea-bottle had been left proppedagainst C. I rigged up an extempore pole and noose and was slowly
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o 2 >< s po oz o pww „ til^^ a t W M 5° How to lunch in private., when others are hungry. pulling it in, when the Tiercel started the alarm, so I swung thebottle under the shed. The alarm died down in two minutes,and shortly after he returned and resumed feeding them off thepuffin. There was a good deal of yapping, and he ate most ofit himself. When I last looked out, at 9.20 p.m., the young wereasleep, but the Tiercel was absent. Friday, May 31st.—Looking out soon after 3 a.m. I saw anold bird standing motionless in the eyrie close to B. At 3.45, onlooking out again, I saw it was the Falcon. She had her eyes closedand she had a patch of white on her head which I had not seenbefore. This, however, is of no use for identification, as thesesplashes are generally due to excrement from the young. By4.30, when the Tiercel arrived with a thrush, the Falcon had dis-appeared. At 6.10 he brought a small bird. It was a very coldmorning, and at 7 a.m. it began to rain.

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