Peregrines return to Norwich

Just to give some background, its just like a soap opera:

On Saturday 14th May, a large dominant female bird was seen visiting the Cathedral Spire at Norwich. At that point our resident female appeared to be submissive to the female and was taking no action against the ‘intruder’. At that time the chicks were still being fed by both the male and the female.  The following morning, it was noted that the ‘intruding’ female had a blue ring on her left leg, at the time the letters on it could not be distinguished. However it was seen that she was starting to have a noticeable effect on our female throughout the day, harassing her and preventing her from delivering food to the chicks. The last noted time on our webcams where our female was seen on the platform was at 8.29am on Sunday 15th May.
On Monday 16th May, the day of the ringing of our Norwich chicks, the letters on the ring became visible and were confirmed as GA, this is a bird that hatched and was ringed at St. John’s Church in Bath in 2013, the sister project to our Norwich peregrines. GA was seen around the cathedral and on the spire. At one point seen on the window apex above the nest box and throughout the day catching prey, plucking and storing it on the very top of the spire. The Norwich resident female was not seen at all throughout Monday and all feeds to the chicks were delivered by the male.The ‘intruding’ peregrine, GA, is of breeding age, when she was ringed in Bath in 2013 she was described as “a large, feisty female”. However this is not the first time she has visited Norwich Cathedral, as she made an appearance in Norwich in the summer of 2015 and has appeared several times over the last winter. Sightings in the local area have also been reported showing she has been around in Norfolk over the last couple of weeks and we believe she may have been roosting in the nest box that we recently installed at Wymondham Abbey in February this year, as a blue ringed female had been observed.

The mother of the chicks hasn't been seen since and GA doesn't seem to be interfering with the male feeding regime.

Just had a look at the live streaming from Norwich Cathedral and there is a significant change in the chicks.  They are a lot larger and they are starting to lose their down.

Just taken a look at the webcam, dont think it will be long now before the fly the nest.

Good and bad news from Norwich, 1 chick has been found dead but another has fledged.  At the moment the other 2 are in the nest and should fledge shortly.

Only 1 chick left on the nest, so 2 fledged, 1 died.  3 out of 4 being looked after by a single adult is not a bad result.

Just checked and nest all empty.

Thanks Sell,just the remains of the last meal!  A good result

Just a update just had a look, and it appears there could be one left not in the actual nest but looks as if it is sat on top, you can just see what appears to be a wing flapping, hope its not been abandened.

Sadly the last chick has been attacked by the agressive other female and has subsequently died. 

Don't usually look at the nest box camera at Norwich Cathedral at this time of the year but just decided to and there is a  Peregrine sat in camera view, cracking view.