Spectator Sport

Apparently, on Saturday (9th), one of the peregrines visited Derbyshire County cricket ground nearby. During the luncheon interval, and watched by many spectators, it chased and caught a jackdaw! Thanks to the Derbyshire Ornithological Society's website for this
information.
Jackdaws have been recorded as prey at Derby before, so the number of prey species still stands at 39.
The complete list is: teal, gadwall, mallard, tufted and ruddy ducks, golden plover, lapwing, woodcock, snipe, jack snipe, dunlin, redshank, knot, turnstone, bar tailed godwit, common tern, little grebe, water rail, quail, moorhen, jay, jackdaw, magpie, mistle thrush, redwing, fieldfare, blackbird, song thrush, starling, swift, waxwing, goldfinch, greenfinch, pied wagtail, robin, great spotted woodpecker, wood pigeon, collared dove and feral pigeon.

Bank Holiday Monday

Another cold, windy day with showers too. Arriving at the cathedral I was greeted by an enormous queue of people which encircled the cathedral - could they have come to see our birds? Sadly not. They were waiting to board some 90 coaches for the big football match at Wembley this afternoon!
Meanwhile, we watched the female pluck some prey and feed it to the chicks. The male joined her on the platform briefly, as viewers of the webcam between 10-11am may have seen. Later, he flew off, making a very distinct alarm call at another male peregrine which was circling the tower high up. Was this an intruder or perhaps the young male from last year's brood?
While on the Green, we met a man who was filming his grandchildren fishing on the river nearby two weeks ago. He spotted a great spotted woodpecker flying upstream which he started to film. To his amazement, it was chased and eventually caught by the male peregrine right in front of his eyes! He managed to capture the whole event on film and we hope he'll lend us a copy so we can share this observation with you....