I've no idea what's going on but I don't think it's good!

Here are some shots from this afternoon. Both birds are around but the female seemed to be quite content to preen herself at the nest site for quite awhile before flying off. For quite a time she seemed to stand with her wings slightly out but with her face against the wall almost as though she was shielding a chick? I'm confused!

There has been a very worrying development?

I spent 3 hours at the site this morning and failed to see any bird on the nest! There was a report of 1 bird perched on the rear of the chimney and I saw 1 bird hunting in the area. There seems to have been some disturbance taken place from looking at the foliage on the right hand side of the ledge. You can see what I mean from the images below.

It is also quite strange that the whole area adjacent to and in front of Frankie and Benny's has been thoroughly cleaned!!!! The enclosed space adjoining F & B behind the steel fence along the canal side was covered in rubbish and of course debris from the birds meals etc but it's now all gone!!!

Unfortunately I fear the worst but I will go back this afternoon to make sure! You never know things may still be OK but .........!

today 30/4/2015 at 11.00am

27/4/2015 at 11.00 am

It looks as though they are sitting tight!

Having spent over 5 hours at the site today there was very little going on other than one bird sat on the nest. The other bird did put in a very brief appearance probably just to see if he was needed but that's about it! I think the next few weeks are going to be a bit boring but I will still be checking up on them when ever I can. At least everything looks fine!

I think this is the female

Do we have eggs?

I am reluctant to say that these birds definitely have eggs but everything seems to point that way! Both are taking it in turns to sit so that must be a good sign. Lets just hope and pray that my suspicions are correct?

Because the nest site is so high and also has a quantity of vegetation growing at the sill edge, it is difficult to see any possible eggs in the scrape. If my suspicions are correct then we could expect to see 3 or 4 eggs in the nest site and from my primitive calculations based on a date that I became pretty convinced that there were eggs and that they were both taking it in tuns to sit on them,  I think that we might discover chicks sometime around mid May!

Needless to say I can't wait but we must all keep our fingers crossed that everything goes well. We must never forget that Peregrine Falcons are still persecuted in this country by land owners, pigeon fanciers and other groups who consider them a threat to their livelihoods or hobbies!

Our Kidderminster Peregrines are working hard to make a go of it!

They are mating very frequently!

The Peregrines that many of us have been watching over recent weeks are trying hard to have a family! I've been watching and photographing them for a few weeks and I am amazed how close they are and indeed how often they are copulating. I just love to hear their greeting calls to each other when they meet up and the way that they circle the chimney home before landing. The flight outline of a Peregrine Falcon is beautiful to us but strikes fear into all other birds!