Peregrine 2012 Season - Part 2

PeterD-2009PeterD-2009 Registered Users Posts: 618 Major grins
edited June 16, 2012 in Wildlife
I received an email telling me that the Peregrine were back. They had changed the location of their nest site which was very hard to locate. They are now some 250-300 feet up in quite an obscure location. You have to know where to look to stand a chance of spotting them.

I returned in late May and to my delight, the male had found a new partner and they had produced 3 chicks. On my first visit, the chicks had white downy feathers and were grouped together on a ledge.

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The chicks were beginning to lose the down, revealing the feathers beneath.
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One of the adults was standing guard on a perch near to the nest site......

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whilst the other was hunting......

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Not far from the nest site was the plucking station and larder.

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Part 3 will show the progress in June and will posted in the next few days.

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