Yesterday our peregrines had themselves a most unusual meal – a buff-banded rail. This is a rather beautiful, but very secretive water bird that skulks in the reeds all day and hardly ever flies. So how Beau or Swift managed to catch it is a complete mystery.
Hi Scott/ Cilla,
Thought it about time i catch up and ask a question. Regarding diet, are you still able to collect their regurgitated pellets and have these analysed. I recall there was a service for this with a nominal fee for each pellet analysis?
Cheers, Ian
Hi Ian,
sorry no reply for so long; just catching up! I went up the tower this afternoon (see today’s post) and managed to get a full bag of contents from the eyrie itself. I’ll pass this over to Cilla for analysis. Not the most glamorous of roles!
Chat soon,
Scott