It appears to be an encouraging year for Peregrines in Lincolnshire with possibly around half a dozen pairs. We are very pleased that the first of Bob Sheppard's four (so far) Peregrine trays is being used this year. I helped him erect this on St Wulframs Church in Grantham on a freezing cold day last year, with help from the church volunteers. (It's quite an effort lugging all the materials, tools and gravel required up the narrow stair-wells as the tray/box has to be made in-situ). Although there is also a webcam installed,
http://www.stwulframs.org.uk/home/falcons.php the camera signal has very poor reception due to the thick stonework, but it is hoped that can be improved later. The Peregrines here had four eggs which have now hatched, and we believe that this is the same female which bred at St Wulframs, Grantham in 2007 and nearby in 2008. She was ringed as a chick on the East Lancashire / West Yorkshire border in 2006, so she bred in her first year - and on a man-made site having been raised on a natural crag.
The Grantham birds are two weeks or so behind the Lincoln Cathedral Peregrines ( 2 chicks from 3 eggs) which can be viewed on the BBC 'Look North' website at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/conte ... bcam.shtml For those that are interested in what's happening outside Lincolnshire, the Derby Cathedral Peregrine project (with 4 chicks for 2009) also has a very good website and diary with some very good web-cam pictures and can be found at
http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/ ... roject.htmAlan
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