I visited my Peregrine Falcon site this afternoon, my 6th visit since I started my 2015 observations having been granted my Schedule 1 License for this year.  Things are going well and on my last two visits I have seen both birds at the nest site constantly.  Eggs are usually laid in the last week of March so it is well worth watching at the moment.  I want to record some mating and courtship behaviour so I have been putting in the time, hoping to get lucky.

It has been interesting to see how incredibly alert the falcon is compared to the much more relaxed and "chilled" tercel.  My camouflaged hide blends in perfectly and can't be seen even from 20 feet. In addition I have a camo corridor, 20 feet long and leading in to the back of the hide. This enables me to get in to the hide completely undetected.  However there is then the tricky problem of not being detected when looking out of the hide.  Today, the tercel was totally relaxed and remained so but the falcon was suspicious and I saw her fly around in front of me before eventually, after a few minutes, settling down on the perch where I have seen her before.  The tercel meanwhile was on a perch right next to a very likely looking ledge in exactly the same place that I watched it for 3 hours on Saturday 7th. Could this be this years breeding ledge?  Only time will tell and I am sure I will find the answer in the next week or so.  

I would like to invite you to bookmark the Blog and check back regularly because I hope to Blog as often as I can and record the entire season.  It isn't that common to have the opportunity to report from a rural peregrine nest site and I am immensely privileged.  I want be able to share my observations with as many people as I can.  Here's the tercel (thats the male).  Just a reminder that I am a Schedule 1 License holder which allows me to photograph at this site and without this license I would be breaking the law.