I am obviously going to visit again to check, its entirely possible that on both visits, one or both may have slipped away following the male hunting if flying strongly enough.
I will have another look, but City fledging is not easy, so many pitfalls waiting for them, grounding/foxes, trapped in small areas unable to get out, glass balconies, glass reflection, water and so on.
Following on from this we fostered another female juvenile from South London, Paul firstly ringed her, this was after Sue/Tom and the team at SEWH, did their usual fantastic work and got her back ship shape.
The nest site was not known, so a safer bet was decided on, foster her at a site which has always worked over the years.
A good release back, another juvenile locked onto her straight away and she didn’t fly and stayed near the nest box, a good result.
On Friday I had the very sad task of picking up 2 dead juvenile Peregrines that had drowned, male and female siblings, a very unfortunate tragic end to their brief lives.
Having conquered initial fledging and flying and landing strongly, no doubt I would expect they were very likely tail chasing each other, lost track/position of where they were and crashed into the water.
This is the only thing that springs to mind, unless it was calm and they thought the water was solid, not being aware of the danger?
Our new blue colour ringing scheme for Kestrels has worked very well, with the first nest site fledging last week. Paul ringed them as part of the Hawk Conservancy Scheme using there blue rings on our boxes.
So far if I recall correctly we have ringed at 5 nest sites, a good result.
The nest site was not known, so a safer bet was decided on, foster her at a site which has always worked over the years.
A good release back, another juvenile locked onto her straight away and she didn’t fly and stayed near the nest box, a good result.
On Friday I had the very sad task of picking up 2 dead juvenile Peregrines that had drowned, male and female siblings, a very unfortunate tragic end to their brief lives.
Having conquered initial fledging and flying and landing strongly, no doubt I would expect they were very likely tail chasing each other, lost track/position of where they were and crashed into the water.
This is the only thing that springs to mind, unless it was calm and they thought the water was solid, not being aware of the danger?
Our new blue colour ringing scheme for Kestrels has worked very well, with the first nest site fledging last week. Paul ringed them as part of the Hawk Conservancy Scheme using there blue rings on our boxes.
So far if I recall correctly we have ringed at 5 nest sites, a good result.
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Parliament - ACX
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Blue ringed Kestrel juveniles - adults seem to like Barnie boxes!
On her way to be fostered
Freedom
A sad sight
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