Sokół wędrowny (Peregrines in Polish) and an update

See an update at the foot of this post

Animated image made and posted by Derby webcam-watchers in Poland

Over the last week we have made big changes to this blog and, judging from your comments, you seem to like them. There's much more to come, of course. The latest addition is an "Introduction" page, accessed from one of the Tabs at the top of the homepage. Next to it is another labelled "Polski". This is the first of three pages which will be produced with information about our Project in one of the main non-English languages spoken in Derby and Derbyshire.

It contains the summary introduction of our project, very roughly translated into Polish. (Roughly, because it was done by "Google Translate" rather than by a real person!) We hope that one or more polish-speakers might come forward to help us translate it properly. (Update: We have now received an offer from a trained Polish translator, and have also received a separate translation into the Czech language, for which we are very grateful.)

That there is strong interest in Derby's peregrines from within Poland can be evidenced from the images and video on this page. All were captured and posted not by us, but by Polish peregrine enthusiasts on their own discussion forum: (Sokół wędrowny - DERBY Anglia - 2012)  Already this year there are nearly 40 individual pages devoted just to Derby, mostly of images captured from our webcameras, and discussions around them. They are well worth a look, and we've shown a few extracts at the bottom of this post.


Video showing two adults and one juvenile on Friday 14th September.

There will soon be lots more ways for people to get more involved in our project. One thing we want to do is to find someone (preferably local) interested in running a twitter account for us. We already have one in English (@DerbyPeregrines) with over 600 followers - see recent Tweets displayed on the right panel of homepage. But we do plan to develop a separate one in Polish  too (@DerbySokoly).

Of course, all this new content is evolving, and could well contain errors at this very early stage. Give us feedback by leaving a comment if you do find things that need correcting or improving.

Extracts of Forum posts from www.peregrinus.pl

22.05.2012r.
karmienie,jedzenia tutaj nie brakuje,posiłki są wydawane w spokoju,

maluszki nie walczą o jedzenia,spokojnie czekają na swoją kolej,karmione są parami ,

by sobie nawzajem nie przeszkadzać w jedzeniu,aż miło popatrzec...

po jedzeniu leżakowanie...

UPDATE 17th October: a short piece about peregrines in Norwich and their prey was on The One Show (BBC 1 TV) last night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ng5kg/The_One_Show_16_10_2012/
Go to 23 minutes into the programme. Viewable for another six days from today. Derby gets a brief mention.....
Nick B.