Identifier: cu31924084757206 (find matches)
Title: The peregrine falcon at the eyrie
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Heatherley, Francis
Subjects: Peregrine falcon
Publisher: London, "Country life" (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nor paid any attention except just to shift slightly eachtime the gull stooped. After the gull had gone I climbed downto the eyrie just as the Tiercel arrived and joined the Falcon incalling the alarm. When I got down to the shed I found Boothvery upset. He had heard shots early in the morning, and, havingseen nothing of the Falcon, was afraid she had been shot. Theyoung were making such a clamour that they neither of them heardme say that both birds were flying round, and as neither they norJim noticed the presence of both birds, they went home with greatfears that the Falcon had been destroyed. G. A. Booth had notaltogether enjoyed his experience. It seems that when he got intothe shed he was so taken up with trying to hear all the instructions,given him amid the uproar of the young in the eyrie, that he didnot notice how the shed was slung to the rocks above ; he onlynoticed the trestles. Now, his namesake, who weighed aboutfourteen stone had tried to see all he could while he was.
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<!O 2O 2;O o < w a. 4° Rocking does not always bring sleep. in the shed, and was continually crawling round, using theventilator-holes and back door to follow the birds when theyleft the eyrie. He had in this way managed to shift the stonesthat supported the trestles, so that the shed became unsteady,though safe enough, and so the first time G. A. Booth shifted overto look seawards through the ventilator-holes, he not only sawnothing but sea beneath him, but the shed flopped over with himand gave him a rare start, convincing him that the only safe thingto do was to keep to the landward side of the shed. To makethings worse, it blew half a gale during the night, and the rockingof the shed on the unsteady trestles prevented him from gettinga wink of sleep. I think he showed great coolness in not gettingoutside to attend to his safety, although afterwards, when he sawall the arrangements, he laughed heartily at his fears. F. Heatherleys watch, from i p.m. May 27th, to 3.30 p.m..Ma

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