Egg number 3 for Bournemouth peregrines, 7 days 1 hour and 22 mins after egg number 2! (Screen grab Lin Eaton)

Good and then bad news. Bournemouth peregrines laid a third egg last night at 940pm. Today one of the eggs was missing! Recordings show one egg got stuck to the females belly feathers and she took it out of the nest during a change over at 641am. Real shame but that's nature.

Image showing one of the three peregrine eggs at Bournemouth accidentally 'removed' from the nest due to having become stuck to the female's belly feathers. 0641 30th March.

I can think of worse things than spending a few hours in the sun making artificial hobby nests!

The penultimate brood of kestrels for this year's ringing/monitoring. What an odd year it has been with about 5 weeks between brood stages....will there ever be a close to 'normal' year again?

Food/prey larder inside a barn owl box while ringing some chicks. Voles, mice (inc. X2 Yellow-necked) and a House sparrow!

A brief glimpse this evening of the first hobby chicks seem this year. Nice.

Just bumped into a legend at Millhams Mead..Ed Stafford.Had to stop and have a chat, would have been rude not to!

Live nest camera of a pair of Hobbies in rural Dorset. Enjoy and please share. camstreamer.com/redirect/xUgLQ…

First hobby chick this morning....yeah!!!

Satisfying when something you have built gets used for its intended purpose.

Sad news, I have just been informed that a second peregrine has died in Poole by hitting a glass window. Without having seen the bird I am guessing it is the second juvenile.

A belated image of the three live camera hobby chicks while ringing yesterday.

A very late brood of hobbies ringed in Dorset. 17th Aug! 11 days later than ever ringed before!

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DRSG are pleased to have helped Stonewater Housing manage potential breeding peregrines at one of their sites. We have installed a bespoke nest box on Harbour Sails high-rise in Poole, Dorset (above ASDA). If peregrines use this box it will be safe and secure.

A short clip of chough investigating a nest box a few days ago. Happy to be helping National Parks and Wildlife Service with BirdWatch Ireland to set up a forthcoming live stream. Watch this space!

Often people ask what the point of colour ringing birds is. Not all birds are easy to re-catch in order to read their rings, it also reduce disturbance & field time This Peregrine Falcon was ringed as a chick in 2021 & is now a breeding bird at that site. Fantastic birds and data

Female peregrine on Harbour Sail (ASDA high-rise) yesterday, sheltering from the rain/wind. Some prey remains.