peregrine feeding in back garden

The dog was barking his head off so I thought he wanted to go out into the back garden so I opened the door for him but he was not interested in going out, wondering what he had been barking at i noticed down the bottom of the garden behind a load of kids toys was a peregrine and his dinner, a pigeon. grabbing my camera with my 170-500 sigma i started the camando crawl down the garden and got within 10 foot of him. i managed to shoot off some 400 photos and watched him for some 1/2 hour before he flew off.
here is the the result - all about being in the right place at the right time ... and a lot of luck. unfortunatly the sky was overcast and I had to shoot at iso 1250 !

Awesome shot!

Great shot, but your peregrine is a sparrowhawk.

Beautiful (albiet graphic...) image. I'm not really an expert on my UK raptors, but I am quite sure this is not a Peregrine. Perhaps a Eurasian Sparrowhawk?

Edit: looks like Sandpiper beat me to it!

sandpiper wrote in post #12143754
Great shot, but your peregrine is a sparrowhawk.

oooppps - how do you tell the difference ?

slartibardfast wrote in post #12143784
oooppps - how do you tell the difference ?

Peregrines are generally blue-grey on their backs, the chests are more spotted with black, rather than barred like the sparrowhawks, and they have the typical falcon 'moustache'.

Slightly less graphic shot

Andy!!!!! Where have you been??????
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Excellent photos!

Hi Flo, I have been hiding under a stone .... LOL ... but it does feel like it.
Got made redundant about 6 months ago and the 12 months prior to that I was working my butt off for the company. I have now gone self employed doing VR photography (3 days ago) and life is rather hectic at the moment as I am sorting my new office out and trying to unpack my new epson sylus 7890 printer
think I will be around here a little more often once i get settled
Andy

I really like the last shot super IQ .
Rob.

lovely images Andy

slartibardfast wrote in post #12144764
Hi Flo, I have been hiding under a stone .... LOL ... but it does feel like it.
Got made redundant about 6 months ago and the 12 months prior to that I was working my butt off for the company. I have now gone self employed doing VR photography (3 days ago) and life is rather hectic at the moment as I am sorting my new office out and trying to unpack my new epson sylus 7890 printer
think I will be around here a little more often once i get settled
Andy

I am happy for you Andy! I remember when you got laid off..but this will be a great new adventure!

nice shots...but yeah it's not a peregrine...i just posted a couple pics just now of one if you want to see the difference...mainly peregrines won't be brown like that(except immatures)...and they won't have that yellow eye color

Nice set.

beautiful shots!