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The Ruchill pair have successfully raised 4 chicks which have now fledged, but can still be seen regularly around the Ruchill water tower where they built their nest. They will continue to stay together as a family group as they learn to feed for themselves. The pair may be the ones which used to nest on the Gilbert Scott Tower before the peregrines took over the nest. Although Ravens are not technically raptors, the Scottish Raptor Study Group include them due to their ecological similarity and Raven nests across Clyde are monitored by the Group.
Ravens are early nesters – they started incubating eggs on February 25th with the first eggs hatching 24 days later. The first chick left the nest exactly 5 weeks after that, initially just staying on the ledge that the nest was built on. A few days later all chicks had fledged, but are currently still being fed by the adults.
If you’d like to read more about the whole process from nest building, to incubation, to chick feeding and fledging, please see this blog written by Anna Wood annakwood.substack.com/p/ravens  You can read John Simpson's SOC Blog on the Glasgow Peregrine Project and the successful Peregrine Watches here
The 2020 report from the Clyde Ringing Group is now available to read. 2020 was a year like no other and the report shares a summary of the year, its highs and lows, record and ground breaking ringing totals and a summary of the best recoveries.
 Dipper © John Chapman Back in April 2021, Judith Chapman began to enter her wildlife sightings in Bird Track. Then, earlier this month, on receiving her personalised version of Bird Track's 2021 summary stats email, it inspired Judith and her husband John to look back at their own observations from their top ranking site, the Blane Valley. You can read their write up of what they saw - Judith's drawings and John's photographs illustrate what is an excellent example of the magic of regularly visiting a local patch and keeping records of what you see from month to month.
British Birds  The bird species that breed or overwinter in the UK have been assessed against a set of objective criteria and placed on the Green, Amber or Red lists to indicate an increasing level of conservation concern. At 70 species, the Red list is now longer than ever before, and is almost double the length of that in the first review in 1996. Read the summary leaflet. The full report is referenced at the end of the leaflet
Private study (2019-21)
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