I agreed to meet Trev around 13:00 and was looking across the landfill at the Little Owl by then, he joined me and in under 10 mins it was out again, showing quite well.
Over the next hour 2 Mistle Thrush crossed the landfill West, then back East 10 mins later, the Lapwing flock rose and dropped nervously many times, but no obvious guilty raptors. Many Red Kite were up in the general area, despite the cold, blustery conditions.
A Sparrowhawk was up to the East, then a Kingfisher went by right to left, then a Kestrel off to the West, only my second this year.
An hour gone already it was time to head back, but in the car park I got onto a Green Sandpiper dropping towards Tern scrape, not that there would be anywhere to land. Then I could see the Lapwing flock looked a bit more frantic, much bunching and splitting of the flock and then I got onto a more compact raptor, it was a very pale Peregrine circling around 300+ feet, about 3/4 of the way towards LFGP, then it turned and went into a super fast dive coming towards us, it came over the central compound and past us just to our East, barely 80 feet away.... we think it covered 1/2 a kilometer in about 4 seconds.
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