** Michael Price wrote -

..snip
> Amazingly, I watched three Pecs came in and with the entire SE pond's
> surface to land on, alit literally right *beside* the falcon as it fed, just
> a foot or so away. I still have trouble believing my eyes. It was a
> terrifically stupid move: when the falcon was finished about ten minutes
> later, it simply turned on one foot, lashed out a fistful of talons, grabbed
> one of the Pecs and took off for the fence with the body of this unwary
> juvenile dangling below. Interestingly, when it carried the prey, its
> wingbeats actually flattened into a shallower arc above and below the
> horizontal, but the frequency increased about threefold. There's several
> nonplussed witnesses to all this. ....snip

This is typical flight behaviour of a Peregrine with prey, often seen just
before aerial prey transfer from male to female near the nest.

- Jack

P.S. - nobody ever said Pecs were rocket scientists.



Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca