Falcons of Scotland in the raw!

[Donna]

So guys, I was photographing these amazing Peregrine Falcons yesterday. Being the fastest living animals on earth, they have been clocked at 240mph hunting pigeons! These two are nesting on a natural nest site. The female was on the nest incubating the eggs when the male arrives back from a hunting trip, with blood stained feet. I presume he caught and ate something before retiring back to the nest to relieve the female from her nesting duties. For ones the male is accepting his share of incubating the eggs. The male calls to the female as he approaches the nest, mean while she is leaping off the edge to go for her own hunting trip; leaving him on "egg sitting" duties.

I wrote to this man today and asked if I could post his pic to our forum. He said no problem. Saw this on our Twitter page and thought what a great pic! He will let me know when the eggs hatch and he will take pics of them growing and will let me share them. 

[carla]

Great ! What a beautiful picture !Scotland is beautiful too !

[jeanne]

Thanks so much, Donna!  So beautiful!

[patsy6]

Nice!   

[Paul Hamilton]

Wow! Great picture and I love natural falcon nest sites.

Paul

[Donna]

So guys, I have been on a few filming trips in the last few weeks and have not had much of a chance to get out with my camera. So at the first chance I got to get out, I went to check on the Peregrine nest that I photographed at the beginning of spring! To my delight I could see one white, fluffy, well fed, healthy Peregrine Falcon chick! The mum was taking off in an amazing fashion after feeding it, so I thought you would like to see the sequence! 

[MAK]

Wow, I wanna know how he did that! 

[Lynne in New Hampshire]

Wow, I wanna know how he did that! 

I have a mode on my cell phone camera that is called Drama-It's supposed to do that!!

[MAK]

Wow, I wanna know how he did that! 

I have a mode on my cell phone camera that is called Drama-It's supposed to do that!!

Very cool Lynn-you'll have to show me when you come watchers weekend. 

[dale]

Terrific photo! Thank you!
I have to say that when I saw the subject of this thread I expected to find pictures of naked birds; came here in some trepidation.