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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wallow it, but the claws and about an inchof the leg remained outside. The Tiercel again swallowed theremnants, including the other leg, and then covered the young,without paying any attention to the young female with the pro-truding claw. He dozed at intervals, and in closing his eyes Inoticed that the lower lid, yellow in colour, rose slowly and coveredthe eye. He never dozed for more than a few seconds at a time,even when not disturbed by the youngsters moving under him.This often happened, the chief offender being the female with theclaws. She on several occasions wriggled her head out from underhis breast. The last time I saw her do this was at 6.35 a.m., whenthe claws were still protruding. At 7 a.m. I tested the light atthe back door, and, finding it sufficiently good, took a series of himwith the studio shutter. Whenever he dozed for more than fifteenseconds, his head began to droop on his chest. Several times hesat there with his seaward-eye open and his landward-eye closed ;
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g 5oo« pq 7,OO1-1 t\ <A WH H —Digesting an inch of meat and bone per hour. but in the plate that ought to show this he apparently closed hiseye just as I exposed. After dozing, he partly preened himselfwhile brooding the young. He sneezed four or five times and alsoyawned. Shortly after 8 a.m. he yelped and looked up as ifwatching the Falcon overhead, then stepped off the young and,jumping on to C, flew off. There then followed a good deal of yelp-ing out of sight, and the young began to stir and whimper, thenearest female gaping ; I saw the claws for the last time ; thistime inside her mouth. At 8.8 a.m. the Tiercel brought a small bird, unidentified,and fed them. The young female with the claws stood in the backrow most of the time and did not seem hungry. I saw her get alump once, but could not be sure of more. If any little bitsdropped during a meal, the Tiercel carefully picked them up andpresented them again. The males generally got the smallest bits,and one of them was ne

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