Whether the Peregrines respected the lives of their more weakly neighbours we cannot say, but the Ravens oft resented the near approach of these Falcons, sallying out from the cliffs and buffeting them in mid-air.
At such a vast height the Peregrines looked no bigger than Jackdaws, whilst the latter birds resembled Starlings flying to and fro before the rugged cliff.
The late Mr. Cameron, then residing at Talisker, informed me that these Peregrines had frequented the rocks here for many years, notwithstanding the fact that their eggs or young were taken every season.
We used to sit out in the garden and grounds there and watch the Peregrines about their nest, which was situated in a gaping fissure perhaps two-thirds of the distance up the face of the cliff.
Peregrines which are used for waiting on require a bath at least twice a week.
Peregrines and the great northern falcons are best kept on beefsteak, with a frequent change in the shape of fresh-killed pigeons and other birds.
And when the Grand Kaan wantsPeregrines from the nest, he sends thither to procure them.
They were sent in homage to Chinghiz and to Kúblái, by the Kirghiz, but I cannot identify the mountains where they or the Peregrines were found.
And yet two of the young Peregrines in the village are wonderfully good cricketers, and as "keen as mustard" about it; though when it comes to rolling and mowing the ground they are not quite as keen.
The family of Peregrines were noted, like Sir Roger de Coverley, for their great friendliness to foxes; and to their credit let it be said that they have preserved them religiously for very many years.
And once again went they out hawking, with the same cast of peregrines and the same little merlin.
The peregrines had killed cushat and partridge, the merlin its half-score of buntings and turtle-doves, and the ladies having had a surfeit of sport, were about setting faces homeward.
Your peregrines are noble birds, and well trained to their work.
Dear little Mer" was a merlin, that sate perched on her left wrist, in size to the peregrines as a bantam cock to the biggest of chanticleers.
For he saw that the heron was dead, and the peregrines had already commenced depluming it.
In some Oriental countries peregrines are commonly flown at hares; but the sport is not one which would ever be popular in highly civilised countries, for the falcon, or falcons, do not bind to the animal like a goshawk.
As there is nothing that peregrines like better than pigeon, your newly-entered hawk will, after a meal presented to her in this fraudulent fashion, take a new view of the merits of a hitherto despised quarry.
Another recommends his readers always to feed eyess peregrines twice a day, but of course moderately.
There is no doubt that by means of such an apparatus--slightly simplified, perhaps--wild peregrines might be taken on the Wiltshire and Berkshire downs.
By rights, of course, the change should be universal and complete, but in peregrines and lanners it is often not so.
Snipe are occasionally taken by peregrinesthat happen to be waiting on when they rise.
There can be no doubt, I think, that of all flights in which peregrines can now be flown out of the hood in England, gull-hawking is the best.
Peregrines are very keen after this quarry, and indeed in some countries are commonly known by the local name of "duck-hawks.
Merlins are also very subject to apoplexy when short of exercise, and peregrines are by no means exempt from it.
Do not suppose that either lapwings or haggard peregrines go crooked by accident, or because they know no better.
Old peregrines can of course be flown at any time (except when there are young rooks in the nests).
As regards pigeons, it is generally pretty easy to break peregrines of checking at them as soon as they have once begun to fly at game.
Peregrines nest in the river canyons and high Chisos.
You are most likely to see peregrines during their spring migration, but nesting pairs have been sighted at Santa Elena, Mariscal, and Boquillas canyons and in the Chisos Mountains.
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