About Huntly Peregrine Wild Watch

 

A big North East welcome awaits you all at Huntly Peregrine Wild Watch from the wardens, volunteers and our peregrine falcons.

Helping you understand more about peregrines

Our aim is to protect and encourage breeding of peregrine falcons.

We also aim to improve visitors’ knowledge of these birds, using cameras to observe and understand their behaviour.  Watch their agility and speed in-flight, first hand from the hide.

From your visit, we hope you will gain an understanding of the falcons’ history and how numbers decreased but are now rising.

Find out more about the history of peregrines at Huntly.

A mixture of emotions

Since opening in 2003 we have experienced a mixture of emotions observing these magnificent fliers/hunters:  loss of females, the breeding of a juvenile female (very exciting and rare), the successful raising of ten chicks and the heart-wrenching death of a chick.

Over this time, our resident male of six years has had to cope with four different females, adapting his behaviour to accommodate each one.  However, three male and seven female chicks have successfully fledged over the last four years.

2007's chicks fledged on the 7th, 9th and 11th June.  We're now awaiting new arrivals.

• We welcome group visits.  See the group visits and activities page for more details.
• Why not volunteer at Huntly Peregrine Wild Watch?
• Huntly Peregrine Wild Watch was originally a partnership between Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and Grampian police with support from Heritage Lottery, North East Raptor Study group and RB Farquhar.