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Wonderful shot, Steven. Peregrine's are such beautiful birds.
It's a poingient thread as I have been trying to photograph a pair of Peregrines with their 3 fledglings just the last few weeks - when I could manage the time and also have the right conditions to get out to see them. This pair of Peregrine's is new to me, closer to where I live, but I haven't had much of a chance to get out to see them but I have managed a few decent shots. They inhabit a long cliff face along the ocean front and you need the right wind conditions to get the right updrafts etc for them to teach their youngsters aerobatics in order to catch prey ie: other birds. The they could be almost anywhere along the cliff top and you then need to walk to where they are and by that time they may have got tired of flying and go and roost for about 40 minutes or so. Can be a little hit and miss.
I have been following another pair of Peregrines at another ocean front cliff face for the last 12 years but it is much further away across Sydney and can take well over an hour to get there and thus can be wasted if the conditions aren't right. It's really only worth going in springtime when they are feeding their young and then later fledging them and this only lasts for a few months.
They are an amazing bird, their speed is incredible and the highest speed has been clocked at 389kmh (242mph) in a dive!
It's a poingient thread as I have been trying to photograph a pair of Peregrines with their 3 fledglings just the last few weeks - when I could manage the time and also have the right conditions to get out to see them. This pair of Peregrine's is new to me, closer to where I live, but I haven't had much of a chance to get out to see them but I have managed a few decent shots. They inhabit a long cliff face along the ocean front and you need the right wind conditions to get the right updrafts etc for them to teach their youngsters aerobatics in order to catch prey ie: other birds. The they could be almost anywhere along the cliff top and you then need to walk to where they are and by that time they may have got tired of flying and go and roost for about 40 minutes or so. Can be a little hit and miss.
I have been following another pair of Peregrines at another ocean front cliff face for the last 12 years but it is much further away across Sydney and can take well over an hour to get there and thus can be wasted if the conditions aren't right. It's really only worth going in springtime when they are feeding their young and then later fledging them and this only lasts for a few months.
They are an amazing bird, their speed is incredible and the highest speed has been clocked at 389kmh (242mph) in a dive!