14 March

The benefit of multiple cameras around the church tower walkway. This YouTube video (click image for the link) shows the male bringing in prey, which is taken by the female to the west walkway where she regurgitates items, before moving around to thesouth, then east walkway, from where she flies.

13 March

'Our' pair regularly on the nest tray daily, sometimes singly, sometimes both together. Another 10 days before we can expect some action!

8 March

3 peregrines around the church at 13.25. Two flying and one calling from the spire. One of the flyers turned back, the other went out of sight. Our intruder again?

7 March

Male brings in a starling at 07.33 and gives it to / taken by the female.

6 March

For the first time since the 2nd, 'our' male has returned. First video at 15.10 shows him approaching the nest and 'gravel surfing'. Second (edited) video from 15.43 shows the pair bonding – a very excited male!

5 March

The ringed male is still around. The resident female has been making brief visits to the nest calling (presumably for her partner, who hasn't been sighted since the 2nd). No sign of nest-scraping.

3 March

The visiting male has been around all day and currently sitting on the spire crockets. At 06.25 this morning, he brought in prey to the nest roof and ate while our female looked on.
Click the image to watch the 17-minute video on YouTube. At 13.25, it was back on the nest roof again, eating.

2 March

Much action today. At 08.46 the male came in and removed the blackbird that was brought in yesterday. He took it to the nest but when our female approach, he made off with it!

The male returned at 11.23 and stayed on the nest, appearing agitated after the arrival of an East Midlands-ringed bird. It was around for 3 hours until, at 15.00, it approached the nest and displayed aggressively – too much for our male, who flew, followed by the intruder...

...so it looks as though our old male has been vanquished. In this video, the usurper displays to our female, but she wasn't impressed and the visitor made a hasty exit through an opening on the east walkway.

1 March

Female brought in prey at 18.25, but left it on the walkway for later consumption.

27 February

Courtship at 07.20 today. Click the image to watch on YouTube

26 February

First solo vist by the female at 07.35 this morning, with the male visiting at 11.40 and again at 12.32, when he spent 45 minutes sitting in the opening by the nest.

24 February

Our pair were seen to be mating around 09.15 on the south side of the church

22 February

Our birds on the nest this morning at 06.40 performing their courtship ritual. The female visited again briefly at 11.54 and the pair have been around the church for much of the afternoon.

18 February

The pair visited the nest this morning at 07.46

15 February

An orange-ringed bird of unknown origin visited the nest around 07.20 this morning and called to our male who was on the parapet. When he flew, the visitor made a hasty exit. The video-grab below from our live-streaming camera show a bit of the action. (Our male is top right in the video.) The male returned shortly after, sitting in one of the openings of the parapet.

14 February

Valentine's Day and our pair are together on the nest for the first time. They arrived together at 14.34 and stayed around the church for much of the afternoon.

11 February

The male again at 07.38 for about 5 minutes. On each visit, he selects and swallows bits of gravel, which aids digestion of its food. There have been no signs of a scrape being created, and no record of the female in the area since the 7th.

8 February

Another brief visit by the male at 07.15 this morning, this time walking along the walkway from the east, before entering the nest tray.

7 February

Another brief visit by the male at 07.10 this morning. The female flew in around 2pm for a short time, but didn't visit the nest, then flew off soon after.
In 2025 and 2024, the pair first visited the nest together on 13th February. That's the date to watch for!

5 February

A visting female juvenile was spotted by the camera on the west walkway this morning. It was unringed, so origin not known. Our resident male called briefly.

2 February

A second brief visit to the nest by the male at 07.30 this morning.
We are suffering several breaks in the streaming – one this morning for almost 45 minutes. A bit worrying!

31 January

First visit to the nest tray this morning by our male at 07.45.

29 January

The peregrines may not be in view, but we know they are there.
A compilation video from last night – the first from the camera on the west walkway showing a snowstorm of feathers as prey is plucked somewhere above. The second, from the south walkway camera captures the moment the prey is dropped from above (repeated in slow-motion). It has been It has been confirmed as a Fieldfare, a winter visitor from Scandinavia.

25 January

Just heard that of our 3 juveniles last year, XVT and XTT are females, XXT is a male. Interestingly, of the 29 juveniles whose sex we know, 17 are female, 12 male.

24 January

All the cameras are now recording. While working on them, we disturbed a false widow spider.

17 January

Both adults displaying around the church before flying north, at 08.15.

7 January

First peregrine photo of 2026 – the male on St. James today, courtesy of Adrian Royale

5 January 2026

Reported that the male landed on St James at 15.45, then the pair flew east at 16.35. First sighting of the pair together since Boxing Day

26 December

Our pair displaying around the church at 13.00, then flew west together.