Peregrine tower, Leamington Spa

Above the Town Hall is a bell tower. Inside the horseshoe arches is a large open space that, for several years, has been used by a pair of peregrine falcons for nesting and rearing young. This year's four juveniles are now well grown and will fledge any day. A watch party has formed, to catch the moments of fledging, and I joined them for a couple of hours this morning. We were still waiting when I left!

The tower . . . with birds at some distance: it's a very high tower! Adults are on the ledges at the bottom of the dome. The juveniles are hunkered in front of the balustrade, in the greenery on the right.

Highlighted here, the father on the left, the mother on the right:

Both are keeping watch over their chicks. A red kite flew into "their air space" and the mother flew like an arrow from her perch, screeching loudly, and chased it off . . . watched by the juveniles from below.

Father on the left of the dome.

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Mother on the right of the dome.

Juveniles below on the ledge in front of the balustrade. Only one standing up, two just visible hunkered down, the fourth behind the stone lip, not visible from this angle