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Young peregrine falcons are fed by their parents for several weeks after they are hatched. At first they feed them in the nest or on a rock. Later they are expected to receive food in flight. It takes some practice. This is a sequence of shots of a fledgling learning to receive food in flight. The mom has a small bit of food that she cradles in her talons to make it as easy as possible to grab it. It's early in the fledgling's training and the food is dropped. The fledgling (a.k.a. Junior) seems to get a bit rattled and does not know what to do, and for a moment he hangs on to his mom's leg and prevents her from retrieving the food. She did go after the food (I couldn't keep up with her) and I believe she caught the food after a dive of about 100-150 feet. I did not see her attempt another transfer although I assume she did.

Since the action was fast and the distance between the birds and the food span a range distances the of sizes of the images vary significantly. Some may be too tall, so the best way to view them may be to click the images so they scale to your display size.

Dave

Junior does a fly by and gets excited when he (or she) sees Mom has some food.

Junior loops around and comes in for the food.

Junior reaches for the food

Oh no! Crash!

Junior grabs for the food

The food is getting away!

Now what do I do?

Junior decides to go after the food but gets rattled and hangs on to Mom's leg

Edited on Jun 28, 2019 at 07:03 PM · View previous versions

Jun 28, 2019 at 06:14 PM

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More images

Mom wants to go after the food

Mom turns to go after the food but junior hangs on

Mom breaks away

Goes into a high speed dive ...

... and leaves Junior (and me) far behind.

Edited on Jun 28, 2019 at 06:36 PM · View previous versions

Jun 28, 2019 at 06:16 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Peregrine Falcon Food Transfer

These are terrific images, Dave!

And it looks like you had some really nice light as well.

Jun 28, 2019 at 06:26 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Peregrine Falcon Food Transfer

Fred Amico wrote:
These are terrific images, Dave!

And it looks like you had some really nice light as well.

Thanks Fred. I think I finally got them loaded in the right order.

These images were taken in the mid afternoon and the light was pretty bright and a bit harsh. You can sometimes see some well defined shadows. Fortunately the light was from the right direction so the shadows did not create big problems. The bright light did permit a fast shutter speed which helped.

Dave

Jun 28, 2019 at 06:40 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Peregrine Falcon Food Transfer

This set is a delight to view Dave

Morris

Jun 28, 2019 at 06:44 PM

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Wonderful series Dave, great to see the progression!
Bob

Jun 28, 2019 at 08:39 PM

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Awesome work, Dave.
Great display by both you and the falcons,

Pius

Jun 28, 2019 at 10:04 PM

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Really enjoyed! TFS.

Jun 28, 2019 at 10:13 PM

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very nice set Dave

Jun 29, 2019 at 04:22 AM

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Dave, Great images. You had a lot of fun here, and some challenges, too. Also, interesting info about Peregrines and Peregrine fledgling rearing. Always love it when info like that is provided with photos.

Jun 29, 2019 at 06:02 AM

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Amazing images! Chapeau!

Jun 29, 2019 at 06:03 AM

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Terrific job tracking this fast action, Dave

Amit

Jun 29, 2019 at 07:47 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Peregrine Falcon Food Transfer

These are fantastic ! I really like the last shot in the first set. Nice separation of the birds and great expressions.

Jun 29, 2019 at 10:42 AM

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Beautifully done Dave voted

Jun 29, 2019 at 10:55 AM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Peregrine Falcon Food Transfer

Wonderful sequence - thanks for sharing it!
Keith W.

Jun 29, 2019 at 01:03 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Peregrine Falcon Food Transfer

dave, great capture and sequence

Chris S

Jun 29, 2019 at 01:23 PM


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