When there is a family of newly fledged Peregrine Falcons, it is worth several trips to visit them for photography, because as they get older, they fly further away from the nest area and can be hard to spot.
In this family, there are three chicks. They only learnt to fly about a week earlier.
On this visit, Sue came along.
Here is an adult, the mother of guard duty –
And one of the juveniles –
Cunninghams Skink
A juvenile landed quite close.
The adult had moved to this perch –
Anda juvenile was just below.
Passing Dolphins –
The adult does some fast flying nearby –
It then landed –
Back to the juvenile –
Two juveniles land on this ledge –
You can see a parent fly past –
With three chicks, in my experience, two of the chicks are friendly and often fly together and share food. The third chick is a bit of an outsider.
Two of the chicks were flying together at great speed –
The juvenile often fly very close to each other, sometimes swing around on joined talons. I think this teaches them how to hunt for prey and also helps then develop the skills needed for mid-flight food exchanges.
The juvenile birds posses good flying skills, but do not yet know good places to perch. A palm tree is not the best place to land.
It was time to head from home. It had been a very good day.