From Rob Davies - This big female Peregrine was picked up out of the sea off Ramsey
Island late last summer by Ffion Rees. She couldn’t fly and ditched in
the sea a second time after washing and release. She had a strange
feather condition - many of her flight feathers
especially the inner secondaries and tertials had apparently
decomposed. We don’t know what from and even the vets were baffled. It
wasn’t a fulmar fouling. With DEFRA permit we have moulted her out and
Ffion has given her fitness training prior to release
near Solva last Saturday. She had a nice big pigeon to send her on her
way but if she is unsuccessful in hunting she may become hungry and
perhaps approachable (although she is quite wild) over the next weeks.
We removed the flying jesses but she will remain
identifiable from her plumage over the next month or two, on a good
photo: outer tail feathers and inner secondaries still straggly and she
is missing a primary, third in from outermost, on her right wing. It
would be great to get any re-sightings of her
and to know if her rehabilitation is successful. She may have headed
straight back to Ramsey but we don’t really know where she came from
originally. Please get in touch with me (
rag@rookwoodstudios.co.uk) if
you think you see her.
Thanks
Rob Davies
