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I take one day off and what happens? It would seem that the pesky peregrine chick had a go at flying, or more likely, non-intentional gliding yesterday morning. Luckily this journey to the ground was reported and allowed our rescue team to pick up the chick (licence required; don’t do this at home...

This week we have been playing hide and seek with Coleen-for-now. Oh, the fun I had on Thursday clambering around on the City Hall. Meeting many of the local gulls and hearing their views. Whilst I thank them for their donations to the RSPB, I would rather they just joined (Do we do a Gull rate?). Whilst...

Hello peregrine perusers! Well this week we really know that ‘Colin-for-now’ is not a boy peregrine, she is huge (See photo, thanks to Anthony Hallam) and is already the same size as her dad. It will be a matter of days before she is out and about on the ledges of the clock-tower, hopefully...

It’s falcon Friday folks! Lots of great sightings today at the clock tower, with Anthony Walton finally making a dry day to come and see us, congrats mate! ;-). The chick is now a huge meaty fluff ball and is beginning to sprout the first glimmerings of ‘proper’ feathers. Three large...

I have been away for a long weekend in Lincolnshire for a wedding, which seemed to fit around quite a lot of bird watching. As I have said in a previous blog, it all started for me in Lincolnshire, that light bulb moment coming at Freiston Shore . The weekend got off to a flying start, quite literally...