One of the park’s few Peregrine Falcons keeps watch over Fern Dell.
Extirpated from the United States by the late 1970s, peregrines were reintroduced via careful breeding programs successfully enough that they were removed from the endangered species list 25 years ago.
Peregrine hoping to grab a meal from an Osprey, an interaction known as "kleptoparasitism" (seems like the poor Ospreys get it from all sides!). Note how the Osprey shields its prey in typical raptor fashion. We left before the denouement -- probably either the Osprey let its guard down, or the Peregrine gave up. Or maybe a bigger thief - a Bald Eagle - showed up!
Clearly it was a good time to pop out for a walk if I wanted to see Golden Whistlers.
The female (pictured thrice here), obligingly stopped out in the open a couple of times, unlike the male, who stayed high in a tree and mostly obscured.
And finally, a surprise fly-over by a Peregrine Falcon. I got one shot only, and this is a bit of a heavy crop, but enough of the colouring came through to confirm the ID.
These two Parrots I spotted supporting a coat of arms on a building on Queen Street in Glasgow confused me somewhat, until I realised it's the crest of the Buchanan Society and they're meant to be Peregrine Falcons!