There has been a female on the roof for a couple of months now (possibly more than one female). The usual antics have been taking place but without the YouTube feed it has been hard to see what the status has been. I identified a scrape in the tray at the start of February and closed off the roof. The College IT department have been working to overcome some technical issues and have managed to get the problems sorted this week. A big thank you to them!
Unfortunately there are no eggs so far, but that's not for want of effort on the part of the male. He has spent a lot of time trying to lure the female into the box, but she won't play ball. Othe pocal pairs have several eggs already, but as there is still a female here, I haven't given up hope. Indeed, there was a third Peregrine flying above the roof while I had a visual on the female on the ledge and the male in the nest box (via the YouTube feed). That might be the fly in the ointment.
These are the links to the cameras:
Camera 1 Feeding Area
Camera 2 Nest Box
Camera 3 Parapet
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)
Both running around through the opening at back, lots of squawking and one brought prey16.29 ish( pics out of sequence.sorreeee)
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Hi Wendy There was more interesting activity around 16.30 yesterday ( have a few scaps on other computer so will post later)e Lots of bowing and calling, she was scraping behind the first box bit( to the right of Tray) she looked at Tray but seemed hesitant...Hope she does not choose there..... He joined her but could not discern a mating just bowing etc,,lots of running in and out of opening
EDIT... Here we go...
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Could be Alan will have to see if Paul has anymore info.
This is what Paul said about P3 June last year
"..... is P3, the largest female. I wouldn't want to mess with her when she's full size"
This from Alan's vid above
here's pidggggeee
likes a scrapei n this corner
and Alans Bird on Cam 1 leading upto kis vid on Cam 2
likes a scrape in this corner
Not long arrived on ledge
Earlier was,Back again on the ledge calling to someone...
Incidentally night cams timings do not correspond with early morning and usually change to coorect time when day time cam kicks in.