Jolly cold here. Went out to local shop about 9 a.m. and car beeped at me that it was 3C and should be careful. Later beeped again; 1.5C be more careful! Nasty white stuff attempting to precipitate, thankfully not settling. Must have offended Weather Gods. Sorry, ladies,
Don’t know where the peregrines nest round here but they are to be seen quite often. They will ride a thermal in big wide circles looking for lunch. When they spot it, there’s an easy pause, a couple of wing movements to get their aerodynamics right, then a push into the stoop, wings curled into negative lift and it is then very hard to follow with the mark 1 human eyeball. They are just unbelievably fast. Often think you cannot have seen what the bird just did.
Have not seen ravens in the wild. Would love to do so. Seem to be really smart and spectacularly good flyers. Sir Geoffrey (or maybe Olivia) are frequent visitors. They have a regular fishing spot on the Rife river, just a few hundred yards away. Love to watch them coming in to land, Long, slow, curving approach – just like a Lancaster doing the classic Bomber Command approach! (opening scenes of The Dambusters film shows it beautifully).