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David Morris


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It's not up yet, but will be soon.

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Does anyone know if / when the webcam will be up this year?  Or is it already up, and I've missed it?



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Karen Foulkes


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As my tram left Victoria late afternoon today, a Peregrine was flying near the CIS tower.

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adult female showed well on a couple of occasions this afternoon, another whizzed past the arndale but not sure who it was, it soon disappeared.

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Yesterday, last years juvenile being driven off territory by an adult. I presume the adult was the parent male. The female just sat on one of her favourite perches and watched.

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I visited Manchester on Wednesday. I saw RA (last years juvenile) but did not see the adult male.

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I will be visiting Manchester today (if my injured knee is up to it).
You might recall we had a sub adult male on site in late March 2014. It was driven off by an adult.



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Hopefully they have not paired up as RA is a last years young Male fledged from the CIS !!

Prob just back on a visit as is what normally happens with juvs..

Craig.



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Adrian Dancy wrote:

Yes released in Manchester.


The Darvic letters are RD.





well now !
Adrian I am going to email you some pics that you will find very interesting as it looks like with now have a new peregrine falcon on the scene wink

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Yes released in Manchester.

The Darvic letters are RD.

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both adult male & the female peregrine falcon showing well this aft/eve, the adult male looking well indeed as if nothing has happened to him & supporting his new bling smile
I managed to get some decent pics of him & zoomed in on his red darvic ring on his right leg, but only managed to get clear view of the second letter A but the first letter is either R or K.

rob, as you can tell the male was released in Manchester. after looking at my pictures again it turns out the letters are RA on red darvic ring.

-- Edited by steven burke on Monday 28th of March 2016 11:34:16 PM

-- Edited by steven burke on Monday 28th of March 2016 11:34:45 PM

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Watched one of the birds around the cathedral as we had a coffee in the cafe at the National Football Museum late morning.



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I assume it was released back into Manchester?



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Adrian Dancy wrote:

Earlier this week the male Peregrine was taken in by the RSPCA after having been found by a builder in a very narrow court yard that was too small in size for it to escape from. The Bird was taken to a recovery centre in Rochdale. The bird appeared uninjured but was found to be starving. On Thursday the bird was given an aluminium ring and a red Darvic ring (under licence) and was successfully released from a high rise later that day. Thanks go to the builder who found the bird and all those involved in its care and treatment.





The poor peregrine, but turned out well in the end. A hats off to that builder though. Hopefully he will go about his usual business now & carry on with his duties

Well done Adrian.

-- Edited by steven burke on Saturday 26th of March 2016 08:14:10 AM

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Earlier this week the male Peregrine was taken in by the RSPCA after having been found by a builder in a very narrow court yard that was too small in size for it to escape from. The Bird was taken to a recovery centre in Rochdale. The bird appeared uninjured but was found to be starving. On Thursday the bird was given an aluminium ring and a red Darvic ring (under licence) and was successfully released from a high rise later that day. Thanks go to the builder who found the bird and all those involved in its care and treatment.



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had a mooch around this aft/eve from 3.30-5.30pm the first time I have been into the city centre this year due to other distractions.
the adult male was seen on 4 occasions in different areas at different times best views were when he was on the town hall, no signs of the female, hopefully she is doing her duties.

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One bird seen today around cathedral area.

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Single bird just flew onto City Tower, 3pm.



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Just popped up onto the roof of City Tower.  Hopefully it'll zip past the window any second now!  



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A Carrion Crow just had the temerity to fly past Town Hall, only to be subjected to a vicious divebombing from a Peregrine and escorted out of the area. 



-- Edited by Ollie Wright on Friday 18th of December 2015 10:28:57 AM



-- Edited by Ollie Wright on Friday 18th of December 2015 10:29:14 AM

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A Peregrine was milling around the CIS building at 0745 this morning.

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Just zoomed past the office window (City Tower) to drop onto some pigeons over Piccadilly Gardens.  16.05.



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One sat on top of Bloom St chimney - not many pigeons flying at the moment though, because of the fog

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female peregrine flew onto city tower at 5.10pm.

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a juvenile flew towards the town hall making lots of noise at 6pm, landed briefly then flew back off towards the arndale.

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Peregrine (female, I think) has been perched on Town Hall Clock Tower since 10am.

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good views this afternoon/evening of male, female & a juvenile on the arndale & whizzing around the skies.

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Single Peregrine on the Lowry Hotel calling this morning

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Don't know if anyone already knows this, but apparently the female juvenile had to be euthanised recently due to having a damaged leg :( Haven't had time to go birding or come on here for a while, and wish it was with better news than this.

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A Peregrine landed at the top of the Beetham Tower at 2022 today.

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A juvenile was perched on the Town Hall top tower at 2030.

-- Edited by Simon Gough on Saturday 27th of June 2015 10:10:10 PM

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1 Peregrine was circling over the gold ball on top of the Town Hall at 12.10pm today

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One bird circled the nest site at 5pm and headed off towards Cheetham hill. Followed by some practice flapping on the edge of the roof.and a quick demo fligt by an adult.. Adult and juvenile remained on corner of roof juv. sitting on top of a vent pipe. . 5.20pm adult dispareared .

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not much activity this morning in the miserable weather but came back later after Rochdale & both adults were about doing there duties, at one point the female almost had a pigeon in her talons she did take a bunch of feathers of the pigeon though smile the pigeon got away.
also witnessed one of the juveniles in flight, it flew around a few times & landed back safely to its original spot.

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the 3 juveniles were at the nest site this evening, 2 of them stretching there wings with both adults keeping a close eye on them. plus a 3rd adult peregrine falcon, what looks like a female on a ledge not too far away.

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From my observations it appears one bird might have fledged yesterday but I can say, thanks to Roy Riding, that all birds are now fledged.

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Large Peregrine just flew over Jersey St in New Islington 5.20

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I have noted activity around the CIS this year.
I suppose it's just out of the way that you would notice around doing your shopping..

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I wasn't suggesting suppression folks - just odd that activity around the CIS had not been spotted - particularly at a known nest site, and the widely held view that the female was possibly too old!

Surprisingly few sightings of birds from my part of town, although the CIS is in my field of view it is distant but I'm still suprised I didn't see some activity!

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Rob Smallwood wrote:

Great news - any particular reason for the news blackout this season?




Unfortunately I have not been able to attend Manchester as frequently as I would have wished for a number of reasons and I expected that if the birds were breeding the fact would be spotted by others. Judith and myself went to Angel Meadows on Sunday to scope the nest tray when we were able to see 3 chicks which were at peak age for ringing. In the circumstances there was good reason not to release information until the chicks had been ringed. The blackout lasted only two days smile

I am preparing images for use by the CIS who have responded quickly and cordially to our requests to access the tray and I will send some images to Ian in case he wishes to show them on this website. If the images appear anywhere they will be here first and though I say it myself some of them are cracking images.



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Adrian, this is fantastic news & rob even I didn't know anything until now.

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Rob Smallwood wrote:

Great news - any particular reason for the news blackout this season?




No one was sure where they were breeding until a week or so ago!

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Great news - any particular reason for the news blackout this season?

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Great news.smile

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Adrian Dancy


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I'm delighted to say the Manchester birds have bred and 3 chicks were ringed today under license by Craig Bell . I am grateful to all at the CIS who allowed access at very short notice.

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There has been quite a lot of Peregrine activity around the CIS tower over the last week or so, involving two birds at times. One has just stooped from the top of the tower after a couple of feral pigeons.

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I saw one of them (not sure which) at about 1.30pm on Monday 20th flying into a hole on the Town Hall clock tower. It was not perched but disappeared inside the clock tower.

Was out of sight for about 4 or 5 minutes before emerging and flying in the direction of the cathedral.

[This was on the Albert Square aspect of the clock tower. Look at the clock face at the 9 o'clock - then a few feet to the left is a hole shaped like a clover leaf - in there.]

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I was on High Street yesterday around 11am. I saw a male flying from the direction of Market Street towards the Cis. Couldn't see it around the Cis. The week before easter I was in Manchester and on most days i went down to the traditional nest site. I only saw the female on one occasion sat on the nesting ledge. She flew off and a short time later I saw her flying round the Cis building.

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I currently help run the RSPB Manchester Twitter page and someone posted on it recently saying they'd seen the peregrines had made some eggs- either they've been mistaken, or might the birds have nested somewhere else?

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I can confirm that there is less to no activity around the traditional nest site based on my most recent observations and it would appear that the nest site has been abandoned. I was very concerned over a three day period not seeing the male bird and visited Manchester before sunrise to establish if a male was present and if the birds had taken to breeding at the CIS. I did take comfort in Steve Suttill's sighting of the birds being active around the CIS building. By the third day (Friday)I decided to investigate if there were any eggs in the tray and see if there was any evidence as to the cause of abandonment. From my observations from another building I was able to determine no eggs had been laid. Of course eggs may have been predated but my instinct was that this was probably not the case. I did however notice that the floor of the nest tray had dropped slightly and this gave me cause for concern. Arrangements were quickly made to replace the nest tray under cover of a one day license and Colin Brooks of Skyline offered his services to physically replace the tray. Colin replaced the tray with my minimal assistance. The job was done in about 24 mins with no birds at or near the site. Arrangements were far more time consuming.


We can speculate as to the cause of abandonment and it may well be because of the tray itself. However previous abandonment at the site resulted in breeding at the CIS building and this has seemingly not occurred this year.


In March I saw breeding take place only once (25th March) and refusal by the female to copulate several times before then. I think Steve Burke may have witnessed copulation. I do not know what others have seen. The female is getting on in years.


I am happy to say that last night, after having dropped in to see Steve Suttill at his place of work I was able to make a positive identification of the male bird and partner to the female since 2007. My positive identification was based on the absence of any ring on the legs and the habits which are more peculiar to this bird. The unusually long pointed bill which made a reliable ID feature was reduced in size last year but I am very confident that it was the usual male and not another.


No one is more sad about the situation than me and whilst it is still possible for breeding to take place I now doubt it will happen and I sincerely hope that breeding will take place next year.

Edit for correction.


-- Edited by Adrian Dancy on Tuesday 14th of April 2015 08:15:17 PM

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