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Is there a Bird of Prey next on the tall building on South Walls?
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They can even have a few of the healthy ones if they are particularly peckish! 
gon2seed
(and me! - Ed)
Were my ears deceiving me, or did I hear the distinctive sound of a falcon calling today from on high up in the BT bronze mountain! Could it be that the Peregrines have returned to their former nesting sight? Late I think, but I am certainly not a avian expert! 
Got the surprise of a buzzard flying over my back garden in Highfield Grove! Was being mobbed by a crow! I believe buzzers have a number of nests about a mile away on the island in the irrigation lake in fields between the Grammar School sports pitches and Hyde Liegh, The Moat, Coppenhall Gorse. https://www.google.com/maps/place/H...52b1f0b979f2547!8m2!3d52.7781552!4d-2.1325512
Have seen a buzzard over Rowley before, but was delighted to see it low over my garden! (Humour him, he has lead a VERY sheltered existence. Ed.
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Got the surprise of a buzzard flying over my back garden in Highfield Grove! Was being mobbed by a crow! I believe buzzers have a number of nests about a mile away on the island in the irrigation lake in fields between the Grammar School sports pitches and Hyde Liegh, The Moat, Coppenhall Gorse. https://www.google.com/maps/place/H...52b1f0b979f2547!8m2!3d52.7781552!4d-2.1325512
Have seen a buzzard over Rowley before, but was delighted to see it low over my garden! (Humour him, he has lead a VERY sheltered existence. Ed.
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littleme
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Ah-ha! On Sunday there was a gentleman with a huge-enormous camera, taking photos of the top of BT Bronze Mountain!Were my ears deceiving me, or did I hear the distinctive sound of a falcon calling today from on high up in the BT bronze mountain! Could it be that the Peregrines have returned to their former nesting sight? Late I think, but I am certainly not a avian expert!
tek-monkey
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How much magnification is required? Got a 60x lens, can I just walk up to the top?
Gramaisc
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We did have a short thread on this matter once.
http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/index.php?threads/ugliest-building-in-stafford.17311/
Withnail
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The lift is quicker.
@Tilly alluded elsewhere that some sort of agro had been dished out, but i've never been challenged.
Just the kind of magnification that you would have about you anyway - it's quite a way to over there, but you just start at their level sort of thing.
I did once get someone coming all 'what are you doing here' at me, but that was because i was riding up the whole thing on my bike, and i don't think they quite knew what to do about it - i think i may well be the first person that rode the whole thing to the top on a bicycle, and was probably also the first to ride down it too.
Jump in the lift, ride it to the top, it'll take them a while to get to you even if they can be arsed.
Amerlan
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There was a huge nesting box for Peregrines installed on the roof of the Civic Centre about ten years ago, I never heard if anyone took up residence though. There was also a large plastic model of a European Eagle Owl on one of the end stairwell towers too, but even the sparrows used to perch on that.
Gramaisc
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The Sandonia had one briefly, too, but the pigeons just took the piss out of it straight away...