Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Wednesday 18th July

Yesterdays performance from the young peregrines made me forget to report the sighting of a Roe Deer and her fawn over in the opposite quarry, they were about half way up, feeding on the vegetation, they stayed for nearly half an hour before disappearing off towards the woodlands at the side of the quarry. This is probably the deer that leaves her tracks in the river mud.

Today, I think that the two female peregrines were perched near the top of the cliff by the grassy ledge, they were lower down, and so not visible from the cliff top. I had a brief sighting of a peregrine (the male youngster?) flying over the tree tops in the quarry over the river and to the left. This was a very beautiful morning, with a warm westerly wind, and light clouds moving over, the effect on the Gorge and the high slack tide, just on the turn, was a sight to behold.

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