Peregrine Update - Juvenile VF fledged at 6.34am on Wed 20 June. She was spotted in a garden in Haldon Road, so she was roofed by the local vet in sight of the Church. She took a good flight that evening, was seen on the tower, later reaching the pinnacles…
Thurs 24 May. Peregrine News from the 'Ringing Chamber' below the Spire at St Michael's is that just shy of 3 weeks old our 2 Peregrine chicks have been ringed (colour rings VF & VG), weighed (680 & 690 grams) and measured (both showing good size and developement) and confirmed…
Sun 25 Jun Thanks to Nick Dixon for his fascinating talk to the 30 people who packed into the St Clement's Chapel during the Big Bash event, and thank you all for coming. One piece of 'hot' news is that our young male JN from 2015 has been seen around Taunton…
We hope our 2 Peregrine chicks, both females this year, will be ready to fledge in mid-June, watch them online. June this year has Lectures, Pentecost, Trinity, & Corpus Christi; But especially please put Sat 24th June in you Diaries for the St David's Big Bash across St David's Hill, with…
In case you've not been following this year's fledging on Twitter, here's the news in brief so far. Juvenile with leg ring PG fledged early Mon 13 June, exactly 42 days after hatching. He flew a bit, got mobbed by gulls, was found in an Exeter College car park, and rescued…
For new update 29 May, scroll to bottom. The breeding season for our resident Peregrine Falcon pair nesting high in the Spire of St Michael's, Mount Dinham, has begun. A couple of days later than in recent years, the first egg was observed by Nick Dixon to be laid at 7.07am…
End of June update - A fortnight or so on from fledging and, as far as one can tell, our two juveniles are becoming strong, confident young Peregrines learning their skills in the sky over St David's and returning to the church, though not needing to use the nest box,…
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…
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…