Sunday, 13 July 2025

Raptor monitoring in North Ceredigion

 Twenty active pairs of kites in the Penrhyncocharea reared eleven young in seven nests, with the other nine pairs apparently failing.

One pair of goshaawks reared two young. 

One pair of peregrines fledged  two young.   The interesting thing about this attempt was that on June 19th,  one youngster appeared to be 10 - 14 days order than the other.  By June 30th one bird had fledged and the other appeared to be ready to fledge, so had caught up by quite a degree.  To my knowledge this is unusual, and there is no mention of it in Derek Ratcliffe's "The Peregrine".  I have photographs if anyone would like to see.

Jerry Moore 


Jerry's email is jerry@wild-wales.com