Odds and Ends

Got a bit of spare time on my hands now, so thought I would catch up on recent activity starting with Parliament.

From previous post’s, you will know they have failed this year through eggs rolling, the new box was ignored, and my thoughts were that, as it happened early, that they had re-laid somewhere in the Vauxhall new builds.

This was based on only ever seeing the Tiercel after failing at Parliament, seeing him always heading towards Vauxhall, sometimes with partial prey, and obviously never seeing the Falcon.

                                                                 Tiercel - still present

Moving on, we are now on July 29th and no Falcon and certainly no juveniles, to my knowledge, have been seen at Parliament. The Tiercel is being seen daily, NaturalEngland have licenced some Drone surveys taking place, so we know he is regular.

Obviously, thoughts will turn to where is she, they pair for life, so if breeding has not been successful, why is she not at Parliament?



Elsewhere, a juvenile Peregrine that Paul, Shaun and myself ringed this year under licence with the new white colour rings, came to light on Twitter, it seems this juvenile female is already venturing further afield. AAG, one of 4 siblings, turned up earlier this week in Ware, Herts, she was seen and identified on Wood Pigeon prey. A massive thanks goes to @Austin_Lill and Stamford All Saints Peregrines and anyone else involved, for bringing it to light and shows the value of the colour scheme already, that she could be identified.

It’s a bit of an interesting story, Ware is 13 miles from her nest site, which then raises the question, is she already self-reliant having left the adults? The fact that she was on Wood Pigeon prey suggests that she is.

Given that the boys ringed her on May 14th with fledging around 1st-2nd week of June, she was identified on July 24th in Ware from her colour ring, it could mean that as little as possibly 6 weeks, she has left the natal site. They usually leave their natal sites from 2-3 months onwards, if prey is plentiful, some have stayed longer, even into the following year. Longer stayers are usually single juveniles.

                                                   AAG being ringed by Paul and Shaun

It could be that with no other Peregrine pairs hemming her in territory wise, she may have ‘thermalled’ and gone further afield searching, to a Peregrine I would suspect 13 miles is nothing.

By now she would have built up considerable wing strength and stamina, and it could also be that she is returning to the natal site to roost etc and just ‘exploring’ further afield.

Hopefully she will turn up again.

She is definitely a poser, photos below are of her visiting another block of Flats on June 26th, a massive thanks to Taylan Durmus for kindly allowing me to use his photos.