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In raptures over raptors
The Journal
|May 29, 2025
RESTORED WILDERNESS HAS NOW BECOME A HAVEN FOR FALCONS
A RAPIER-shaped falcon wings over an ancient landscape awakening visions of Anglo-Saxon warriors with swords and battle-axes, thwarting a cruel conqueror.
Too fast for the human eye to follow, the awesome 'cast' of hobbies - what a dreary collective noun for these sleekest of raptors - were scything through a miasma of dragonflies in the spring sunshine.
Up to a dozen falcons had taken to clear blue skies over the RSPB's Ouse Fen reserve near Earith in Cambridgeshire for an insect banquet after a gruelling migration from African wintering grounds.
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