. The peregrine falcon at the eyrie. <O DOIx OZ «WHi-J w 1-1uo«w wffl 52 W^e do like late suppers- woke to life and the young began to move about. First one andthen another lurches unsteadily across the eyrie. But for theirheads, they look, with their yellow claws, like hunchbacked,speckled farmyard fowls. Only their thighs are downy now, andwith their great, dark, solemn eyes and formidable beaks each lookslike a caricature of Mr. Gladstone in short cotton drawers. Theirhome a slaughter-house, where every meal entails a bird tragedy,there is a grim humour in their appearance. They are evid
. The peregrine falcon at the eyrie. <O DOIx OZ «WHi-J w 1-1uo«w wffl 52 W^e do like late suppers- woke to life and the young began to move about. First one andthen another lurches unsteadily across the eyrie. But for theirheads, they look, with their yellow claws, like hunchbacked,speckled farmyard fowls. Only their thighs are downy now, andwith their great, dark, solemn eyes and formidable beaks each lookslike a caricature of Mr. Gladstone in short cotton drawers. Theirhome a slaughter-house, where every meal entails a bird tragedy,there is a grim humour in their appearance. They are evidentlygetting hungry, for presently a big female routs out a bloody skullfrom somewhere behind the rocks and, holding it under her talons,tears at it for some time and then tries to swallow it. Failing inthis, she puts it down and tries to reduce its size. One of the others. THE LORDS OF APPEAL EIGHTEEN DAYS 8, Plate speed 250, Subject number 100, Stop FS, Exposure l-26sec
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