Chichester Peregrine Blog

We keep jumping up on top exercising our wings it won’t be long now!

Not long now!

As the camera angle gets wider we are looking out…..not long to go now!!

Look out!

Our youngsters still want to be fed by their parents but one of them already wants to escape.  Number 63 (one of the girls) has been seen in the cutout of the turret. She was spotted from the ground!!

Still want to be fed!!

A week to ten days should see us in the air….We are doing a lot of preening to get rid of the fluff and get our feathers in top condition for the moment we fly.

Preening

There are three in this picture can you see the third one??

Getting bigger now and have lost a lot of fluff. Just over a week before we can expect them to fledge.

The peregrines are on fine form at Chichester giving very good views at the moment. It will only get better towards the end of the month when the youngsters take to the skies.

Great flying at the moment

Dad comes in with a small snack,the chicks are now four weeks old and nearly as big as their dad.

Dad feeds

If you can’t see us we are exploring please don’t worry as we are quite safe its very difficult to fall out of the tower unless we want to fly.Its about two weeks until we fly, the picture below could be all you see of us unless we are tired and go back in the box for a sleep.

walk-about

Our three youngsters are growing fast. You can easily see their feathers growing on wings and tail.  Yesterday they went walkabout outside the nest so do not worry if you cannot see them – the camera does not cover all of the floor area of the turret.

Don’t forget to look at the new gallery of pictures taken as the chicks were being ringed.

In case you are all worried about the camera being off, it is because the chicks have been ringed this evening.  We have 2 girls 63, 65 and a boy 62.  (Ring 64 broke as it was being put on the bird)

One of our chicks

Picture of Graham with one of the girls.