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9 Mar 23

A day of exchanges, food offerings, egg keeping. I saw them mate this morning and witnessed a food pass late afternoon. Azina refused the pigeon offered when on the ledge but accepted it in the air and went to eat it on the roof of Muscal House (that block of flats she’s taken a shine to).
I am expecting the third egg sometime in the night: around 4:30 if she keeps to the same schedule as the second egg (60 hours) or before (last year it took 57 hours so it could be as early at 1:30). Time will tell. She is currently in the box, on the eggs, after her dinner, which took about an hour.

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  • 18 May 23 — Day 37

    It’s been a typical day in the life of a young Peregrine. Long periods of inactivity with pancaking or sitting watching the world go by and preening. Bursts of mad activity with running around, jumping and flapping. P6T’s flapping is getting stronger and longer.

    P6T stretching his wings
    P6T stretching his wings – a lot less down than a few days ago


    He was fed twice, pigeon both times.

    P6T pancaking
    P6T pancaking – he seems to have adopted that corner for it

    Today’s shots:

  • 14 Mar 23 — Day I-5

    Azina was eager for the food Tom brought her this evening. She really rushed towards Tom!A few intruders again today (one seemed to be a juvenile but it was from quite a distance) but that didn’t disturb Tom and Azina’s incubation routine much.

    One clip where Tom has to do a lot of begging.

    And a few shots from today.

  • 31 Mar 23 — Day I-22

    Rainy day… And we got a repeat of Wednesday with few exchanges and long shifts with Azina doing one of six hours and Tom over three hours so he was back to over five hours in total. No sign of intruders 🙂

  • 15 Apr 23 — Day I-37 / day 4

    I was out for most of the day but took my tablet to do some spot checks (which turned out easier said than done, but it worked which was the main thing). Azina waited until one minute before I was due to leave to finally get up and reveal that there were still two eggs and two chicks.

    Two chicks and two eggs
    Two chicks and two eggs

    A check early afternoon gave me a hint that there may be a third chick but I lost signal and it’s not until later in the afternoon that I was finally able to confirm it and put the word out.

    If you look closely at the shot above, taken at 11am, it looks like pipping on the egg on the left.

    At 11:46, Azina turns and walks on the chick that’s just hatched. It’s still curled up from being in the egg! That is quite a rough start…

    The third chick has just hatched
    The third chick has just hatched

    An hour later Azina gives us another glimpse. The chick has dried up a little.

    Glimpse of the third chick a bit fluffier
    Glimpse of the third chick a bit fluffier

    Then, two and a half hours after it’s hatched, we get to see a fully fluffy chick at the second feed of the day. It’s the one at the back. It doesn’t get fed then but that is not a problem, freshly hatched Peregrine chicks usually don’t eat for many hours.

    First views of fluffy third chick during the second feed of the day
    First views of fluffy third chick during the second feed of the day

    It didn’t have to wait too long in the end as it got its first bits of food at the next feed.

    The third chick gets its first food
    The third chick gets its first food

    By then I don’t know if this chick was the one that had been trying to hatch since Thursday…

    The chicks got 4 feeds, a mix of Pigeon and Starling.

    Shots for today:

  • Fledge Watch

    I have put the #FledgeWatch notices up around the hospital this morning. P6T is in the second shot, he was preening on the left hand side corner of the ledge.

    P6T observing the world around

    I really hope there won’t be any accident during the weekend because I have to go away. I will be keeping an eye on the cameras when I can. I have asked some friends and neighbours to keep watch and help to rescue P6T if necessary.

    I will start Fledge Watch on Monday morning.


    Anyone is welcome to come and help watch, keep me company or relieve me for a while. I hope he fledges on Tuesday or Wednesday but, with young Peregrines, you really can’t tell!
    Indy had her accident on Day 40 (that’s Monday for P6T) but really didn’t fledge until 4 days later, Walnut fledged on Day 43 (Thursday), Jack fledged on Day 44 (Friday).

    He again spent the night out on the wall, in the same spot at the night before. He hasn’t been in the box since Monday unless going after a parent. Which has given Tom the opportunity to go and do a bit of housekeeping in there. It’s needed!

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