Peregrine Falcon Chicks

Have been following the Peregrine Falcons in Aylesbury for a while now and it looks like the chicks are not too far away from their first flight. They have lost most of their down feathers and almost the size of their parents already and they are less than 5 weeks old!

Unfortunately the pics are not fantastic and are almost 1:1 crops at 600mm, shot from over 400 feet away in less than ideal conditions, but they do show how feel the chicks are progressing. The story so far is on my website with 8 blog posts and over 30 images and counting!

Some of the images from Monday evening...

Great to see the chicks coming on so well- thanks for posting even if 1:1 on this occasion.

Good to see that there is a great use for that absolute monstrosity of a building!!

Despite the 1:1/ distance issues it's nice to see the shots

Thanks guys, hoping to get some better shots tomorrow as we should actually get some sunshine, they are due to fledge anyway now so fingers crossed I can get their first flight.

Can't agree more about the building, not the prettiest of sights and even more surprising is it's listed!

It does look like all their down feathers have gone now, for those that want to have a look I forgot to mention there are 2 webcams up there which you can find here.