Just fed a wild Peregrine a feeder rat in backyard!! VIDEO

[Highline Reptiles South]

My son and I were cleaning the rat rack today on the back deck and noticed a nice looking peregrine falcon on a branch maybe 40 feet away. We sat there for a while and cleaned away.

I decided to take on the feeders and let him got about 30 feet away...he walked another 10 feet towards the falcon and WHAM...it was over.

The video is kind of blah...but I tell you what ....seeing that in my own backyard was just amazing...

http://youtu.be/T-Vkp724EMw

[Clementine_3]

Awesome! Really cool, thanks for sharing (and filming). Raptors are super neat, love seeing/watching them.
I just moved and will miss my Cooper's hawk, saw him get a little sparrow once, amazing. I couldn't figure out how to box him up and bring him to my new house though.

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[Simple Man]

You crazy son of a gun! Haha.

Regards,

B

[Wapadi]

My husband is a licensed falconer and it will never get old watching one of those amazing birds fly back to us after we have released them!! They are soooooo very intelligent its scarey! I am willing to bet your peregrine was a falconery bird at some point in his life. Rats are completely NOT his normal food!! But they are the second most nutricious food for him....

[cecilbturtle]

just out of curiosity, will he come back for seconds? do you think he'll recognize you as a food source?

[Highline Reptiles South]

I wondered if I was causing a problem but curiosity got the best of me....he already hunted/perched back there...i have seen him on that very branch before. We have some wild mole,rats, mice, snakes like king snakes, rats snakes, watersnakes, copperheads, canebrake and pygmy rattlers etc. In we quite of few birds of prey around here. In fact I saw a dead Peregrine on my neighbors porch...he flew into his window

[cmack91]

nice! we caught a red tail hawk in our backyard, it was just walking around so we went out there and it didnt try to fly away or attack us or anything. we thought maybe it was injured so we through a towel over it and took it to a wildlife vet, the guy said it was fine and was probably on its first flight and had problems, but it let us walk to 3ft from it







and this is a picture taken by the vet


it was cool, he just totally chilled the entire time, no struggle or anything, and sorry, im not trying to hijack the thread

[Highline Reptiles South]

My husband is a licensed falconer and it will never get old watching one of those amazing birds fly back to us after we have released them!! They are soooooo very intelligent its scarey! I am willing to bet your peregrine was a falconery bird at some point in his life. Rats are completely NOT his normal food!! But they are the second most nutricious food for him....

Too cool. You know about 35 years ago when i was a YOUNG kid i was able to spend the day with a falconer and his peregrines. I wanted one so bad as a kid it HURT! In fact I had a poster of a peregrine in my room for over 10 years as a kid

[mainbutter]

Super cool, thanks for sharing.

[Highline Reptiles South]

here are some closeups of the falcon...