June has a host of interesting lesser days. There's also the brilliant VOCES8 visit on Friday 19th June, with Lunch & Workshop and/or Recital options available, so we look forward to seeing you at St Michael's. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Plainsong Vespers & Meditation take place at 6pm. Thurs 4th June, Corpus…
May31 update. It's been really evident this week how, although the young female is noticeably larger than the young male, her growth of darker feathers to replace the pretty white fluff of the chick phase is still a couple of days behind that of the male whom we assume hatched…
We hope that the 4 Peregrine eggs laid towards the end of March will have hatched; their “due date” was Thurs 30th April. In fact, the 1st egg hatched about 6.30 that morning, and a 2nd chick emerged early on Sat 2nd May, but it looks like the other 2…
Apr22 update - our female and male Peregrines have been incubating their eggs, 4 in total, for a month now, and we estimate the "due date" for hatching to be around 29-30 April; just a week to go, so keep watching. It seems there is another younger female in the…
I was hoping to call this first Peregrine blog of the 2015 season "egg sighting news", but it's been relatively quiet in the box up till now, just sleeping there overnight and preparing an impressive scrape, with the action so far happening outside the box, as a third Peregrine has…
By midday on Sunday 8th June both the female Peregrine chicks (HeBe & HeiDi) had fledged and flown too. With no need for monitoring from us on the ground this year, it's been hard to keep track of their first movements, but it seems all 3 are already able to…
With much less fuss than last year so far, the news from Saturday 7th June is that HeCtor, the young male, has fledged and flown, and returned to the church tower. The young females have been flapping their wings on the edge of the trefoil opening, but not yet left…
Hopefully you've seen the Posters in the recent News Update blog. This is the same information in Diary form combined with the Music List for June. We have now had a myriad (10,000) views of the blog, from 65 different countries - thank you. Meanwhile, keep watching our Peregrine chicks,…
Yes, it's week 3 for our Peregrine chicks, rapidly becoming juveniles, growing well thanks to good parental hunting, with Mum making sure all get their fair share of pigeon etc. They have started to move around the nest box, if rather ungainly, flex their young wings, spend a lot of time…
A week on from the hatching of our three chicks, and the fourth egg is still intact, so we must assume it will not now hatch. The adults are still keeping it close to their young and half-heartedly trying to incubate it, but to no avail. The good news is that…