The chick has taken to sleep against the wall at times...

A moment between Azina and the chick.

A few more shots

Day 13 The chick is still thriving. It was left on its own a bit more, it was a bit warmer. It got only four feeds, all pigeon again, but it was still so full of the previous one that the fourth one only lasted 6 minutes.

Twenty minutes with the chick today. YouTube video: youtu.be/qWx6XpIHQ_w

Another failed mating attempt.

Female intruder landed on the ledge again and started flirting with the male. Azina quickly put a end to that!

Day 12 The chick continues to do well. It has started to move around a bit more. Azina has still been brooding him a lot, maybe because of the chilly wind. It got six feeds, all pigeon. The new male has been bringing and offering food to Azina again. He didn't go near the chick today.

They did it again! This time I was ready with my camera 😉

Funny moment this evening. The chick had ventured out of the normal brooding spot. Azina comes back, is a bit confused at first and goes on the eggs. She remembers the chick but it doesn't want to be brooded. Repeat. In the end the chick relents and goes under mum... Video: youtu.be/dh_X_CIIklo

Day 11 The chick is now 10 days old and can be left alone a bit more, but we had a strong cold wind so Azina still brooded the chick a lot. It's developing nicely with pin feathers coming through. Hence it preens a fair bit.

The new male and the chick.

Azina and the new male mated on the ledge during this evening's Peregrine Watch. At last, after so many aborted attempts... Azina had just gone to sort out some Crows near the Ark, and got mobbed by Gulls, reminding them who they were messing with...

The chick was a bit ambitious don't you think? 😂

Tough love!

The chick takes advantage of Azina being away for a minute to preen this morning.

Forty minutes with the chick yesterday morning condensed in 3. YouTube video: youtu.be/06bFwF62Rpw

The male is eating near the nest box, spots Azina and starts doing the dangling ritual signalling he's got food for her. She accepts the offer and goes back to the box to feed the chick. YouTube video: youtu.be/kAYcMal7Sss

Day 10 The male brought two pigons, freshly caught, to the ledge within the space of 2 1/2 hours. Pretty impressive! Azina used some of it to feed the chick.

Day 9 The chick has mastered the art of the pancake 😉 Azina has started leaving it on its own a bit more, for 10 or 20 minutes at a time. She is still mostly brooding it though.

First flapping! Not much but it's a start 🙂

The male has done it again! I think he's pretty terrified of Azina...

A few minutes with the chick this morning. A bit of preening and an annoying feather. YouTube video: youtu.be/-ubOsh9Zp7E

I have watched this a few times and still can't figure out what the new male intended to do...

Day 7 The chick is growing well. It got 8 feeds! All pigeon, some of it being the one the new male caught the day before. It has started preening a bit more and you can clearly see the first pin feathers.

The new male came even closer to the chick this afternoon!

The male gave Azina a food offering this morning and she fed the chick with it. It may have been just a chicken foot he found on the wall from his prey from yesterday but it's a step in the right direction. YouTube video: youtu.be/ckIHVc2gts4

The new male showing us off his perfect feathers after his bath. Sorry Tom I used to call you manky, especially lately it was very distinctive in flight with your feathers of different lengths... And we'll miss that characteristic gap in the tail.

Day 6 The chick continues to do well. It had five feeds today, all pigeon. Two lasted nearly twenty minutes. I saw it preen and hints of pins are starting to appear.

During Peregrine Watch we saw the new male go hunting South. Later we heard Gull calls North and watched him bring back prey, mobbed by a Gull. He brought it to the ledge, killed it, ate then cached it by the nest box. Azina retrieved the food and fed the chick its last meal of the day.

Another or same female intruder on the ledge three hours later. Again the male is a bit flirty (but she's rather bigger than him...)

Female intruder on the ledge this lunchtime.

Day 5 A good day with 7 feeds for the chick, all pigeon. No sign of the female intruder. Things are slowly progressing between Azina and the new male with the first recorded food offering happening. He'd gone to pick it up from his stash I think, not from Azina's. All in all, pretty good 😀

First recorded food offering between the new male and Azina. YouTube video: youtu.be/oYxl9I4dCmM

This is how close the new male got to the chick today... Azina had gone hunting/fetching food/eating. Nothing happened, he was there one second then rushed to the other end of the ledge. That's one thing he likes doing, walking from one end of the ledge to the other, but not on the wall.

Day 4 The chick is strong and got plenty of food again. All pigeon today, over six feeds. There won't be more chicks, the window's closed now. To be honest, with Tom's age, I wasn't sure there would even be one...

This was the chick's third feed of the day. Not much change since yesterday. YouTube video: youtu.be/cz4M4L7b_Mo

A few minutes with the new male this morning. He's not used to the camera, hopefully he will in due course. YouTube video: youtu.be/tyhcH-3zT5o

Day I-37/3 The chick is doing well but I think Azina is trying to kill it with food 😉 She's been bringing so much, half the time it doesn't even wake up from its food coma. Its crop was bigger than its head after the last feed, or at least it looked that way. On the menu was Parakeet and Pigeon.

Today's third feed for the chick. It's been eating very well, Pigeon and Parakeet again. As you can see there is still only the one chick, it's becoming more and more likely that it's going to stay that way. YouTube clip: youtu.be/27_hfHK2VA8

I finally managed to zoom in on the new male this afternoon to take some closer shots. You can tell he's been in a fight from the left side of his head but he seems OK. What strikes me the most is how deep yellow his feet, beak and eye rings are!

Day I-36/2 The chick is still on its own and seems to be doing OK. It had three feeds, of Parakeet and Pigeon. I am not seeing pips on the other eggs.

The new guy on the railing during Peregrine Watch tonight.

If Azina had to contend with just the new male it would be bad enough but today the/a female intruder has been most persistent, forcing Azina out many many times. In this clip the new male lands first then the intruding female. Azina leaves the box and chases her off.

Day 2 The chick had Parakeet also for its second meal 😉 No other chick. And the new male is still around.

The chick's first feed! Parakeet! YouTube video: youtu.be/Od9UIs8Jrac

Day I-35 The chick had Parakeet for its first meal! #EatYourGreens

Still no news of Tom. And there is now a new male starting to court Azina... Nothing happened until mid afternoon when I spotted a bird perched. Through the scope it didn't quite look like Tom. Later I saw its legs and it had no rings...

Clip of the chick being revealed at 11.15 this morning: youtu.be/zWJIn0x1_PY I went through the recordings and estimate it may have hatched around 9.20, the first glimpse of the eggshell being at 9.27am. Still no Tom. And we saw at least one other Peregrine on the hospital this afternoon.

There is a chick! Hatched in the last couple of hours I think, still a bit wet. This was the first time Azina left the box since 6:30pm yesterday. Still no sign of Tom...