Sheffield peregrine falcons

[zach]

Ah, right. I have both Sheffield and Notts cameras on quite often during the day but not so much at night. Glad it all turned out OK and thanks for the update.

[melv]

On 03/05/2019 at 14:38, taxman said:

There was a bit of twitter panic overnight where it looked as if the eggs had been left for a bit and the female had gone missing. Thankfully it looks like panic over.

I gather that the eggs were left unbrooded for about 75mins. Hopefully they will hatch.

[hauxwell]

There is no one sat on the eggs at the moment.  Yesterday when I looked there was  just the eggs in the nest.  

[zach]

I've had it on most of the morning and she/he was on the eggs earlier. I was counting from the Notts eggs being laid to the Sheffield ones, maybe I'm being impatient but the time difference seems to be a long one now. The 3 chicks at Notts are growing at their usual speedy rate.

 

 

[hauxwell]

She is back in the nest, she’s doing a lot of crying out and she looks stressed out to me, but I’m no expert.

She is only sat on 3 eggs, one of them is exposed.

[zach]

Yeah just noticed that. It looks like the first egg that was possibly laid by the intruder that's she's booted out! Must be having a "peregrine" moment.

[hauxwell]

2 hours ago, zach said:

Yeah just noticed that. It looks like the first egg that was possibly laid by the intruder that's she's booted out! Must be having a "peregrine" moment.

This is only my second year at watching these birds, so again I’m no expert.  It seems strange to reject the egg after all of this time.  I was wondering if she couldn’t manage to sit on the 4 eggs? 

 

 

I think she has brought the rejected egg back and is sitting on it.  

Think you are right she’s having a peregrine moment.

 

1 hour ago, hauxwell said:

I think she has brought the rejected egg back and is sitting on it.  

Think you are right she’s having a peregrine moment.

I think it’s going to be a miracle if these eggs hatch.  Mrs P has just been chased out of the nest by the intruder who looks bigger than her.

[melv]

Looks like the intruder has killed the resident female. There's a picture on the peregrine Twitter site 

[nikki-red]

16 minutes ago, melv said:

Looks like the intruder has killed the resident female. There's a picture on the peregrine Twitter site 

 

Someones said the bird the intruder killed is actually a pigeon.
Obviously this would be good news but if its true where is the female? Looks like the male is there on his own?

[hauxwell]

I saw the intruder with a dead bird in its mouth earlier on today, and I thought  it looked bigger than a pigeon.  Hope I’m wrong. 

 

Edited May 6, 2019 by hauxwell