Friday 4th September

I cycled around via Clifton and Observatory Hill, then across to the Peregrine Watch. There was a Peregrine over in the banana tree, it took off just as I was about to leave, flew around the quarry for a while, then disappeared. A squdron of Mallard flew down river just after this, wheeled around and sped back past me. I've not seen ducks fly so fast before, so maybe the Pergrine was visible to them! In America they refer to the Peregrine as a duck hawk .....