It was remarked upon by Stringer during the match. More attacking flair than any of our lot, clearly.

I saw it as soon as I got to the top of the steps coming outside onto the stand, caught my eye straight away. The police had made sure the coaches only arrived 30 minutes before kick off so I assumed I'd missed something and it was meant to be there or something. I can't remember where it was but I remember once some team having a bird do a lap of the stadium.

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I think that this is the scary creature that hangs around football stadiums eating raw pigeons. Easy to mistake for a beak, mind…
http://tinyurl.com/d39oagl

Pigeons are obviously more digestible than peacocks!

Perhaps they should nickname it Sven, aimed at those responsible for his 'removal' from office:

"Be good, because these things come back to bite you".

Traditionally a typical Peregrine's nest would be on a remote and inaccessible rocky crag or cliff top, but more recently they seem to have discovered that the top of a tower block serves just as well, with the added bonus of convenient pigeon 'take aways'.

There's a pair that have nested, and bred successfully, on top of a block in my city for a few years now.

Many years ago I saw one 'stoop' on a pigeon in the Scottish Highlands – jaw dropping.

It was actually there for the Derby game too, I watched it on telly here in Oz and the cameras zoomed in on it and the commentators mentioned it to!!

Seems we have a new fan!!

Yes, Perry's been around for a while now. Apparently the first time he appeared he started to... er... dump his load over sections of the kop, to chants of "S on, S on, S on the bastrads below, below..." Throwing pigeon guts down on them is probably less fun though.

All we need now is a falconer, someone who can train him to fly at and scare opposition defenders, enabling us to actually have a shot at goal every now and again.

He sat above me in the roof of the West stand C1 yesterday and he was pecking on the elasticated supports/straps for some sort of unit that is up there!! God help us if he dislodges/breaks the straps on that and it comes crashing down!! A great sight though is our Falcon.

Also more entertaining than the football by the sounds of it!!

I reckon we should kit him out with a blue shirt. Apparently he's like lightening on both wings! Boom Boom! UTF!

If he hangs around for much longer they may even change us from the Foxes to the Falcons!!

Thanks for your comments.

So they are losing their shy streak and becoming urban dwellers then. That explains it.

As I don't live in the East Midlands I don't see the local news. I think I saw it briefly against Derby but didn't realise what it was.

I think it is amazing the thing or things are there and we are lucky to have them.

I can recall one or two mentions in novels of them nesting on old-fashioned Manhattan skyscrapers for the last couple of decades.

I know 'old-fashioned skyscraper' sounds strange, but unlike sheer modern concrete jobs, the early 20th century ones often have narrow external ledges at each storey. Although you'd think from movies and TV that people walk along these every day while fleeing from cops, commie agents or jealous husbands, in fact no one ever does, and they are quite as undisturbed as cliffs as far as hawks are concerned.

Are they endangered? I hope no-one wants them removed because I'm chuffed to bits they are there.

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Wikipedia says that they "will on occasion take rats, voles, hares, shrews, mice and squirrels". I wonder if they might stretch a point for Rob Earnshaw?

Just to back up fat fox's point about older tower blocks:

http://sussexheights.co.uk/peregrines/

Still can't get a live link to work on here, sorry.

Vulpes- try cutting and pasting the link instead of copying and pasting it, that seems to work better for me?

Thanks stunningfox, I'll give it a try

http://sussexheights.co.uk/peregrines/

Harrumph!

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