Hi guys, thanks for watching this video! If you want to learn more about the Woking peregrine falcons, please check out their website, where they even have an upcoming book we feature in! :) www.wokingperegrines.com/book
Simon talking to the animal seems to help. His tone of voice is so non threatening it seems to fascinate the animal. Their instincts tell them he is trying to help them.
The falcon looked so incredulously offended when she was grabbed and I guarantee you she cannot comprehend how she got from being grabbed on the building to back at the nest box, unbelievably indignant that she'd been manhandled by Lawrie. "I cannot believe it! One minute, I've landed on a building, the next I'm back where I started, after being wrangled by a giant! The audacity!" -Falcon, probably.
Thank you for helping that bird. Peregrines have a special place in my heart after helping the conservation authority here. In high school, we set up a Webcam to watch a nest overlooking a lake in rural Canada. Just amazing birds!
Another great rescue. Any chance an update is on the way regarding the baby owl with the broken beak? I can't stop thinking about it and I'm worried no news means bad news.
Thank you! Don't worry, that owl has healed beautifully and is now with 9 other tawny owls in one of our aviaries. It will hopefully be released soon! :)
That young Peregrine cleared quite some distance (...mostly the gravity-driven kind). Glad it was fine and the rescue was performed with safety in mind, both for the bird, as well its rescuers. 😊 Well done!
Congrats on a job well done. My knees were like jelly watching you up those tall buildings! Peregrines seem to have made a bit of a comeback recently, they're beautiful.
Oh how wonderful!! Lawry's & Simon risk life & limb to help a baby rapture! That was quite a risk!! *whew* best action movie I've seen in a while!! Thank you guys for all you do!!! Love those birds!!
Awww "unhand me!" and the view comment! I love the little easter eggs! What a beautiful beautiful bird, I'm so glad she's alright and safe! Hopefully next try doesn't end on a crash!
I have followed your adventures from the early days and all your ups and downs,and the loss of Channel 5 was at the time disappointing ,but time has moved on ... Who needs TV anymore... Top work guys!!
I love birds. Absolutely love them. They're beautiful, incredible creatures, and the best of them only have about two brain cells to rub together. Brilliant.
beautiful voice and narration, at times it reminds me of Richard Wilson's voice (take it as a compliment) - I'm new to this channel and I'm finding your work exciting!
Each rescue is amazing 🤩 there’s so much to learn from the amazing team and I can’t stop watching each one of these old and new videos 👏🦆🥰🦊 🦌 🦢 kudos to Wildlife Aid 😂
@@ChronoAegis Not the lack of a comma, but the lack of a hyphen between "crash" and "lands". www.yourdictionary.com/crash-land But Simon took it as humour, not as a grammar correction, thank goodness. I was just having a bit of fun.
We had two chicks need rescuing this year and one last year,it seems to be a regular thing with peregrines haha.They are abit to keen to rule the skies,after returning them to nearby building they all survived and are doing well.
Another excellent rescue. I hope McAlpine allowed you guys to keep the hard hats. Useful items and would advertise themselves if you had to enter a rival company's site! 😉
A pair of Peregrine falcons were nesting on the building across from the one I was doing stone work on in Chicago (Michigan Ave and the Chicago River). We were working from a swing stage (a scaffold that hangs from cables) and for some reason one of the falcons decided it didn't like my scaffold partner and started making diving passes at him. He talked me into switching sides with him but it didn't matter, the falcon didn't care about me, it was my partner it had a problem with. Every time we would get to the 15th or 16th floor this thing would start messing with him. It never made contact with him, just made it clear that it didn't like him being there. I thought it was hilarious...my partner, not so much.
Is this the same nest that had the falcon behind the air conditioning? Edit: yes it is! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XR4BgOiwm74.html
I know a chap who whilst at work and walking through the mill yard one day, he stumbled across a BIG young Peregrine falcon, as you do, not on the wing...but, just out of the nest...it was scrabbling about on the cobbled yard! Yikes, what to do? To save it from the mill-cat .... he carefully threw a sack over it and gathered it up and took it indoors...it was squawking!? So, he CYCLED at full speed to the nearby Morrisons asking for "...meat suitable for a wild falcon, please...!?" On returning to work the guy became a 'surrogate mum' feeding the fledgeling perched on, wait for it,...on the office fridge! The young falcon Ignored the meat, so, the guy popped it onto a low mill roof and it was soon being fed by mum... phew!! I just love seeing you guys in action showing care you have for our wildlife chums... once again, RU-vid gold!
Export house, used to be called the BAT building. Was owned by british american tobacco, had huge letters on the side BAT. lucky you got to see the view from the top of the new building. Think you were in the hotel one? be nice when its finished. and you blew that birds mind, it seem to almost be crying when it realized where you put it
I suppose because they work outdoors and need to be heard over all the machine noises they don't tend to wear them, but it's always good to see Simon and the team being responsible
Great rescue, I would very much like to know if there's footage of the bird taking off again! Also I was disappointed to see all the construction workers weren't wearing masks. Simon, please consider wearing a better mask when in such situations, those thin surgical masks mostly protect others from you and not so much you from others. Stay safe
As much as I love these videos, I can't help but be absolutely astonished by how few people wear masks (with the exception of the Wildlife Aid crew, of course). Not just in this video but in a couple others where the team will be speaking with bystanders or callers who don't have any kind of masks and it's just.... Bleak.
They really only help prevent spreading debris when you're coughing or sneezing, and cotton masks trap germs and whatnot against your face any time you touch them. While I agree they are a courtesy, wearing masks is not a fail safe against illness of any sort. If you can smell anything while in your mask, well, bacteria are smaller than the molecules producing the smell and viruses are exponentially smaller than bacteria. That's the 6th grade science, unfortunately. Best wishes!
@@Undomaranel How odd. I thought it was common knowledge that wearing the masks isn't for the protection of oneself, but to protect others from any potential projectiles (ie. spit, sneeze, cough, etc.) Beyond being a courtesy, they are now mandatory in many countries. But mask-usage (and it's efficacy) does differ, between governments, countries, and individuals-evidently. Best wishes!
