Chichester Peregrine Blog

Awesome

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:47:44 +0000

7.30 pm and the light is fading but on the northeast turret there are 3 – yes I said 3 juvenile peregrines.

59 has fledged. All three were seen to fly around the cathedral along with their parents.

All three juvenile peregrines

Wings outspread is 58 and next to her is 59. 57 is below.

2 Fledged one to go

admin — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:30:59 +0000

This afternoon 58 was on the northwest turret exercising her wings and 57 on the nest turret. Then there were 2 peregrines on the nest turret so 59 was out of the nest but we didn’t see her fly!!

58 on the northwest turret

57 on the nest turret

Pictures of Chick #57

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:03:37 +0000

Here are two shots of chick number 57, a female (there all female)

We have lift off! Number 57!!

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:08:35 +0000

One of the girls has fledged early this morning. We do not know as yet which one but will update you as soon as we can.

And then there were 2!

Growing Girls

admin — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:03:36 +0000

The girls are getting big now and exercising their wings a lot. One has been seen on the roof of the nest box and another in one of the turret castellations.

The camera is now covered in spider web in which many bits of nest debris have lodged. So apologies for the poor quality picture.

They should be fledging by the weekend.

The girls

My dinner! NOT theirs!

admin — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:27:53 +0000

Hungry Dad

Supper

admin — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:56:56 +0000

Just a light supper for the chicks tonight. Picture taken with the new Canon 1DX.

Supper (a starling maybe?)

Fledging…

admin — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:52:17 +0000

The chicks will be due to fledge around the weekend of the 15-16 of June. They are growing very quickly as you can see…

Chick

My how big I am

admin — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:21:57 +0000

It’s amazing what a difference a few days makes. Our girls a re growing very quickly and will soon be fledging.

Big girl

Empty nest

admin — Sun, 26 May 2013 10:39:24 +0000

We have just had a phone call from a gentleman in Germany concerned that the chicks are not in the nest. We would just like to assure everyone that they cannot fall out of the nest area as they are down inside the turret on the cathedral. The sun is shining this morning and they may be too warm in the nest or perhaps they have moved to another part of the turret in order to have a go at eating a morsel of food left by their parents. The camera does not cover the entire turret area so this will become a more common occurrence as they become more mobile and inquisitive.

Thank you to the gentleman that phoned and please do send us an email so that we can thank you personally for your concern.