Parliament - August

It's looking as if we still have 2 juvenile Peregrines on site, as of last week, noisy as ever giving the adults a hard time and chasing them everywhere trying to be fed.

One of the juveniles I know for sure is 'ABB' , he is a male and not surprisingly the other juvenile, a female, is the injured bird, I have nicknamed her 'Peggy'.
Remarkably the leg looks better and is tucked in tighter on flight, even landing/standing up seems more controlled by her, whereas previously she had struggled to stand and feed herself.

Whatever has happened she has hit something so hard, it has smashed the white colour ring off so it must have been a very heavy impact.

Being a bigger stronger female, she is dominating ABB when prey comes in from the adults, even when he gets there first, she just muscles in and takes it from him.

Now we are into September I would suspect that the little fella will go very shortly, I have little doubt that he may have already taken his own prey, but I suspect it's hard to leave if you know you have guaranteed prey everyday from the adults.

During August also I have also been recording what is in, or over Victoria Park and the Parliamentary Estate.

Highlights have been Sparrowhawk, male and female most days, 6 Common Buzzards over, a flock of Greylag Geese past the Eye, and rather bizarrely 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers on the stonework of Parliament.
One flew through over the Roof but the 2nd landed on some stonework, I would suspect it was looking for Spiders.

                                                         Common Buzzards over high

                                                                Great Spot - unusual

                                                                         Greylags

A rather unusual setting for a Woodpecker, both were lucky that all the Peregrines had fed, otherwise I would suspect that they would have been targeted.