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Went back today to the site I spotted 4 weeks ago and there are four chicks which are now quite big, a good record and I think they will now all fledge:
I like the two littl'uns peering over the rock
Taken with E-M5 and Canon 400mm f5.6 plus Kenko 1.4x from the roadside around 200 metres away.
4.young was the typical number for the nest I was involved in protecting in the 90's. A BTO ringer came and ringed them shortly before they fledged each year.
It's the image that's important, not the tools used to make it.
4.young was the typical number for the nest I was involved in protecting in the 90's. A BTO ringer came and ringed them shortly before they fledged each year.
I was asked to look into the possibility of abseiling down to the nest by a Natural England licensed ringer friend of mine (I'm a fully qualified climbing instructor) but I judged that the cliff top was too vegetated and loose and would involve considerable risk to both myself and the birds.
Very fine pictures. I suppose the site location is a well preserved secret.
Not sure how many people know but I have never mentioned it to anyone other than Bird Club members who already knew. Never seen anybody else near there.
Not sure how many people know but I have never mentioned it to anyone other than Bird Club members who already knew. Never seen anybody else near there.
David
Good to know, too many untrustworthy people about, following your thread with great pleasue.
The picture tells the story, great when you have a bad memory.DW.
Not sure how many people know but I have never mentioned it to anyone other than Bird Club members who already knew. Never seen anybody else near there.
David
Hi David,
Good to hear. Sadly, disclosing Peregrine falcon nests may end up like this.
(Google translate will produce a reasonably accurate translation).
Later on a lab in the US confirmed the Peregrine Falcons were poisoned with Carbuforan.
We set up a 24/7 watch after the nest failed 2 (or 3) successive years. We didn't know if it was egg collectors, falconers, pigeon racers or gamekeepers.
After the watch started an egg collector was caught scouting the site and was 'warned off' but there was also a lot of harassment of birders by gamekeepers. We were liasing with the local plod but when I was doing the midnight shift one year I let it be known I wouldn't call the police until the person had 'fallen' over the cliff.
It's the image that's important, not the tools used to make it.
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