The three fledgling peregrine falcons of Bournemouth are now whizzing around with the parents, learning to catch birds for themselves, but they are still screaming to be fed from the college tower.Other falcons are a little more advanced and one youngster from another family seemed to succumb to the attacks of herring gulls a few miles away, perhaps whilst trying to secure a meal of baby gull!. within the first few months after leaving the parents, they are at their most vulnerable.The picture shows the dead falcon on the beach below the house with the gulls nest.
On the heathlands, the heathers are flowering very early due to all the rain we have had, and here the flowers of the cross leaved heath display an unidentified leaf beetle.
Also an unidentified Geometrid moth, one of the emeralds was found on a B.N.S.S field meeting.It settled on the lens of my camera.
