Diamond is starting to spend more and more time in the box and standing right in the scrape. Her backside is starting to look a bit ‘fluffy’ , so it shouldn’t be more than a few days now.
Xavier is still bringing in much scorned starlings, but also a bit of variety with parrots and pigeons. Here Diamond on the right is sporting a pigeon ‘crop’ (the bulge in her neck). This shot is a good one to show the difference between the male (Xavier) who is considerably smaller (about 15%) and has more intense, orange-y, feet, beak and eyerings. Diamond’s colouring is more of a lemon yellow and she is of stouter build with thicker legs. She also has more spots on her chest, but these not clear on this image.
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Our ‘floater’ peregrine (assuming that it is the same one) has been around again and managed to actually frighten Xavier off the tower and break up a mating. See the videos: the first shows our pair’s reactions to the intrusion and the second the action on and around the tower.