Peregrine news...

So our parent peregrines had a baby! Just the one, but one nonetheless.  My mum watched (she's a few doors down from us) as the baby came out of his nest and sat on our pylon the first time.  He has now fledged and does a bit of flying, what a legend he is!

He returns (we think he returns - he could still be sleeping here) every morning and his parents come back and feed him, yesterday he spent nearly all day here trying out different levels of the pylon and it is just brilliant.  He even found his way into my nephews homework, with what he'd seen in the garden at Nanny's!

Mum has been in touch with some peregrine watching/community/action type group from London and they gave passed on mums contact details to the Hampshire division with whim mum has now spoken.  We think Our peregrines aren't a young couple as we once thought, apparently 'pylon birds' usually only raise one baby, maybe because of the space? Who knows. But nest boxes and other environments are more conducive to larger numbers of chicks.  They think our pair are a pair that had already been identified, but had gone missing this year. They usually nest on a pylon a few pylons over, but this year have gone for a ours, lucky us! 😊

It's so lovely to have them here, not least because they are keeping the awful, noisy Rooks away, it's so lovely to see them.  They are relatively rare, there are only 1500 breeding pairs left in the UK and at one point were close to extinction.  They share the same status protection as the giant panda and tiger - how cool is that!

If you want to have a read and learn more, here is a link to the RSPB.... http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/p/peregrine/index.aspx 

Anyway, here's a few pics from yesterday.

TTFN xxx