Hi to everyone at Raptor Politics, after following the wonderful material and images you have been posting on your blog for some time, and having seen the two stories submitted this week by Frank and Ian, I thought it was time for someone else to show your readers what you can really be achieve if you are in the right spot at the right time with a camera. Isn’t it interesting and significant I feel, that so many peregrines are taking refuge within Britain’s inner cities, including London, where they are relatively so far free from illegal persecution. The material published on this site relating to the illegal killing of raptors on red grouse moors is a total and unacceptable disgrace. Sorry to post some negatives here but its true.
Urban Peregrine image courtesy of Sam Hobson
As an insight into to how things should be if people were not so selfish, I have now posted a small number of my own urban peregrine images which I hope most of your readers (but no pigeon fanciers I suspect) will find interesting to look at and appreciate. Thank you Raptor Politics for allowing me to use your platform to bring my work to the wider public across the world. Click here to view my peregrine images.
Sam Hobson
I did not know Bristol was run down!! But great pictures of the birds. I wonder how many of the pigeons were feral [escaped from pigeon lofts] costing the tax payers via council tax £millions each year to clean up after them!
Most people I take to in cities are delighted to see Peregrines about and hope that they reduce the feral pigeon plague!!