Birds Peregrine Falcon vs Herring Gull - 'The Arrogance of Youth'

[stemlett]

A peregrine falcon was hunting for its lunch on Sunday and came close to a flock of herring gulls just taking off from a farmer's field. One of the young ones decided to take it on

• ILCE-7RM4A
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 400

• ILCE-7RM4A
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 320

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Brave Gull!

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Excellent images

 

[AlphaWorld]

And?

I wanna hear the rest of the story! Did the gull discover that it was taking on the speed demon of the sky?

(I wonder if the gull had been reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull?)

 

[stemlett]

And?

I wanna hear the rest of the story! Did the gull discover that it was taking on the speed demon of the sky?

(I wonder if the gull had been reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull?)

anticlimactically the peregrine just casually resumed it's hunt and I presume the gull got a bit of advice in whatever a bird has for an ear...

 

[AlphaWorld]

anticlimactically the peregrine just casually resumed it's hunt and I presume the gull got a bit of advice in whatever a bird has for an ear...

Oh, the worst insult is to be ignored!