Chichester Peregrine Blog

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

Big girl

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.

You can find more pictures of our peregrine family in the galleries of this website.

For pictures of what was happening as the chicks were ringed Click here

and for the view at ground level of the adults worried about their offspring Click here

Dad has decided he needs to keep watch.  Last night all his girls got married (they had rings put on their legs)  he obviously thinks they need more protection today!!!!

Dad on watch

Today’s ringing, a full gallery will be up tomorrow on the main website – www.ChichesterPeregrines.co.uk
Pictures copyright to Luke Dray (LukeDrayWildlife.co.uk)

The Girls

Picture of The Girls courtesy of Graham Roberts

Some of you may have noticed that the camera was not working for a while this evening, this was because it was turned off while our chicks were ringed. This year we have 3 females ring numbers 57, 58 and 59.
There will be pictures on the blog soon and a new gallery of the ringing evening too.

Well done to our new male who now has to look after all his girls!!

Tomorrow is when we find out the sex of the chicks.  As soon as we know we will let you guys know but for now we would love to hear what you think (comment below)! Here is a hint – The females are a third bigger, also keep an eye on the webcam as they are being fed more often now and you might get a clearer picture of the three chicks.

The Three Chicks

Have you noticed how big our babies are now!!

This morning Dad came in and started feeding the youngsters and then Mum arrived with lots of noise and took over.  She obviously didn’t think he was doing it right!!

Dad feeding chicks

Mum takes over

Well fed!

Sorry we are having problems with the webcam and looking into it now.

Here you can see the reason why the picture is not all that good.  We have our own lodger – a spider – and it has woven its web over the camera.  The sunshine shows it quite clearly in this pic!!

Web space!!