The Week

 

A busy but very satisfying week, we returned back another 2 juveniles to their respective families, both white colour ringed from the new scheme that Paul, Shaun and myself started this year.

To date the boys have used 10 rings, a couple of the sites failed this year unfortunately, otherwise it would have been more.

Both release backs went well and again owe their 2nd chance of life after ‘grounding’ to SEWH, one especially after a wing issue. As I have said before, if you are looking for a cause to donate to, this is it.

                                                             Juvenile No 1 on its way

                                                                      Itching to get out

                                                            Juvenile No 1  - freedom

                                                         Juvenile No 2 - photos P Hawkins

                                                               Juvenile No 2  - on its way

Another new site has come to light, on checking under Schedule 1 licence recently, I incredibly found no less than 7 Peregrine eggs inside! Quite obviously they had tried in previous years, with no substrate, all had rolled sadly, she had laid on bare metal. Looking at the eggs showed some of them to be quite old, she could have had chicks etc, but suspect we will never know as it wasn’t watched.

The owners have been superb and for 2024 the pair will have a tray and CCTV, I delivered the tray and substrate in the week, hopefully it will do the trick and should make life a lot easier for the Falcon and Tiercel. It has a ‘natural’ roof so a tray will be sufficient.

                                                             New Tray and Substrate

The 7 eggs have been sent off to the Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme for analysis, it will be interesting to see how old they are.