Saturday 17 February 2024

New photos of our birds, that old egg and two talks on peregrines

Last week, regular photographer Dave Farmer took some excellent photos of the falcons from the ground and they are well worth sharing:

The female on the platform edge. Dave Farmer


'She who conquers'. Photo: Dave Farmer

The male keeps a watchful eye. Photo Dave Farmer


And just to be clear: the egg you can see on the webcams is an addled egg from last year and not a new 2024 egg. We hope to remove it and clean up the platform before any eggs are laid this spring.

Wendy Bartter is putting almost daily videos of the birds on YouTube and the links to them are in the comments to each blog post.
Find those she has made in the last few weeks in comments to the previous blog post entry by scrolling down and new videos in comments to this post.
Coming up are two talks by the authors of a new book on The Peregrine Falcon, Richard Sale & Steve Watson. One is in Buxton on 9th March and the other in Derby on 22nd March
For details see: Meetings and Trips (derbyshireos.org.uk) .


The Project Team

10 comments:

Wendy Bartter said...

Lovely captures of our pair Dave, many thanks!
A couple of videos of our female's actions today, spending lots of time in the scrape and calling to the male ... they finally get together briefly but the weather was very overcast by mid afternoon...
https://youtu.be/MYTL-072QqM?si=cfOQ-1jdM4jdrVQn
https://youtu.be/gJQVuzYi_ko?si=BqzUtIosM5UnNPwP

Ian Willson said...

Just a question regarding the addled egg. Is there any intention, that when this egg is retrieved, there is some kind of investigation undertaken to attempt to understand why it didn't hatch?

If I recall I think it was 2022 that an addled egg from that year was to go through this process?

Nick DWT said...

Hi Ian: I suspect the addled egg is too far gone to be worth sending off for analysis and anyway, we've still not heard back about the previous egg as far as I know!
Nick B

Wendy Bartter said...

More bonding today ...
https://youtu.be/NVGRc1zMJfM?si=iEE9-HzmlLkfFedO

Wendy Bartter said...

Video of our female this afternoon highlighting the ongoing left foot problem, still not gripping the ledge with it nor being able to tuck up as she rests ...
https://youtu.be/Xexxck2xCaA

21 February 2024 at 18:00

Wendy Bartter said...

Our pair bonding this afternoon ...
https://youtu.be/uMhRY24kh_Q

Wendy Bartter said...

Our male and female today
https://youtu.be/HzVAHhQD5q8?si=sw1msLP67ZGSJMFM

Wendy Bartter said...

Update on Father & Son Peregrine traders ...
https://www.birdguides.com/news/community-order-for-men-caught-trading-wild-peregrine-falcons/

Wendy Bartter said...

Male flies in and has a scrape
https://youtu.be/LL2Q314jwg0

A bit later our pair have a get-together
https://youtu.be/hWIbN8QiN8Y

Wendy Bartter said...

Who do you think is having a scrape this morning?
https://youtu.be/Wi4zs-DFL8k?si=nB0lyIplHJidTQwR