Tuesday 18 October 2011

Swoop!

What I would’ve done for a video camera today…

Outside my office window I’ve just been watching a mother falcon teaching her two young to hunt.

Hovering over a large pond she was demonstrating how to hover, and practicing swooping down on imaginary prey. She dived down, then they copied. They all repeated this several times in different places on the pond. Then went and perched on a lamppost to rest, came back and did it again, this time from nearly twice the height.

Once they’d repeated this the mother flew off and her young followed her apparently racing one another to catch up to her :-)