The Wakefield
Peregrine Project
Registered charity: 1187885
Ringing of the Chick
Just one of this year’s two eggs hatched and the chick was ringed on the 18th of May.
It has been fitted with an orange Darvic ring carrying the code ZVA.
We believe that the chick is probably a female but the weight wasn’t high enough for there to be certainty about that.
The Delayed Second Egg
The second egg was expected on Thursday morning, 21st March, but it did not arrive until Saturday afternoon, 23rd March, at around the time when we might have expected a third egg.
It’s likely that we will never know what went wrong but one possibility is that an egg was deposited somewhere other than in the nestbox.
We now have to watch to see whether this breeding season will get back on track.
T4H Settles in at Bradford
We have received news that T4H, a young male from Wakefield’s 2021 brood, has settled in at Bradford City Hall and has been seen copulating with the resident female.
This is exciting news for followers of the Wakefield Peregrines and for developing peregrine project in Bradford, led by Paul Wheatley.
The First Egg of 2024
Following a day in which the female spent quite a bit of time in the box, she laid her first egg just after midnight on Tuesday, 19th March.
This is the date on which she laid her first egg last year.
