went missing from a garden<\/a> in Brantham, Suffolk, on Sunday.<\/p>\nHer owner Mick Smith was desperately searching for her and appealed for help.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the 76-year-old managed to recapture Chanel on the shoreline in nearby Stutton thanks to the help of local dog walkers who he said he owed everything to. <\/p>\n
Mr Smith had been visiting his partner in Brantham over the weekend and brought Chanel and his other male peregrine to monitor their feeding during their hunting season.<\/p>\n
As he did not intend to fly the birds, Chanel was not wearing a GPS tag when her leash became loose and she flew off. <\/p>\n
Mr Smith, who lives near Ely in Cambridgeshire, said he received numerous calls of sightings over the days, but by Tuesday night believed they had exhausted all options.<\/p>\n
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People in the Brantham area were asked to keep an eye out for Chanel in their gardens <\/p>\n
On Wednesday morning, as he prepared to return home, he received a call saying Chanel had been seen in the Stutton area, and a further report from dog walkers.<\/p>\n
The couple, Mike and Jane Hems, sent him a photo confirming it was Chanel, but she flew off into a tree just before nightfall.<\/p>\n
“We gathered at six this morning when it was pitch black and waited for the daylight to lure her,” he continued. <\/p>\n
“Thankfully the dog walkers, for a third time, found her sitting on the shoreline – attracted my attention.<\/p>\n
“I came along, took the lure out and she came immediately like a bullet, hit the lure, ravenously eating her reward.”<\/p>\n
Mr Smith does not believe Chanel had eaten too much, but she was well and now resting.<\/p>\n
“I am absolutely overjoyed, emotional, drained,” he continued. <\/p>\n
“I’m hoping she’s thinking, ‘I’m pleased to be home, it’s good to be back’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contributed Chanel the peregrine falcon is back safely with her owner Mick Smith A falconer said he had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-247418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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