Chichester Peregrine Blog

Male comes in about 12:45 but our female tells him off, I think she is hungry!

We have sound!!! haven’t been able to confirm yet how well we can hear the peregrines but there is definitely sound!

The new camera has come in the post!

Whoops – it wasn’t the camera that arrived but the microphone.  But just remember folks we have to wait for ‘the man’ to come and put it up there (you have to have the right credentials to approach a nesting peregrine).

5.22 this afternoon Dad left the nest and Mum took over.

Mum takes over duty

And settles down on the eggs

We have had a number of comments about the inability of Apple products to see the live webcam. We are sorry about this and completely understand your frustration but we only HOST the webcam and have no control over the software used. We have expressed this view but there does not seem to be any change to the software in the pipeline. On a positive note if you are lucky enough to have an iMac or MacBook it is possible to view the webcam.

The webcam is back up

Apologies to everyone we are having problems with the webcam. We hope to have it back up very soon.

The Marquee is up, the displays are being put together and the TV is ready to go…All set for the Chichester Cathedral Peregrines Date With Nature opening tomorrow at 10am 🙂

Here are a few shots from the other day…

It is strongly believed that this year’s male is different from previous years. The reason for believing this is that this year’s male has very different behaviour from the previous male. Examples of this are:

• This year the male has been very submissive to the female whilst changing brooding duties (this was not the case previous years).
• This year’s male has been showing off (strutting his stuff if you like) to the female. This has also not been seen in previous years
• The male body posture is different. Last years male was a more heavy build; this years is not – its rather slim and young looking.
• This years bird sits in different places from last year. This year the male favors the North West Turret area. Last years bird spent most of his time on the South East Turret Area.

All these add up to us being 99% sure it is a different male; the only thing that does not make it 100% is the fact that neither males are ringed.

(Luke Dray, David Shaw and Janet Shaw)