To peregrinate, or peregrinations.
Peregrines are one raptor that’s doing fairly well here in the UK, they’ve learned to use the urban landscape for nesting purposes, ie church towers and spires, office blocks, warehousing, etc. A pair have been nesting for years on the tower of a church in the city of Bath, I’ve watched one perched on a stone finial, plucking the feathers from a hapless pigeon, I’ve watched a pair on the ground in a field one winter, probably looking for earthworms, just outside a local village, and just recently a pair, possibly a parent and one of this year’s fledglings, flying over where I work, on a large business estate in Westbury, which isn’t all that far from Bath, so it’s entirely possible that I’ve seen the offspring of the Bath pair.
I was actually watching a peregrine being put through it’s paces by a falconer at a zoo just outside of Bristol today, stunning bird close up; she was a bit slow, and not very interested, because she nailed a pigeon yesterday, and was more than a little overweight!
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