Mitchell first noticed the birds of prey swooping overhead when he was attending an outdoor music concert at nearby Dreamland.<\/p>\n
He gained special permission from the 18-storey building’s leaseholders, Freshwater Group of Companies, to have access to the roof space where he saw evidence that the peregrines had made it their home.<\/p>\n
“There were feathers from smaller birds everywhere, which were clearly their dinner,” Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately there were also eggs which had not survived full gestation due to it being too exposed and damp up there.”<\/p>\n
The environmentalist from Ramsgate has built a sheltered nesting box specifically designed for the peregrines to lay eggs and raise young.<\/p>\n
He said the box had a gravel base to help drainage and keep the chill off the eggs and had an open front to prevent other birds making it their home.<\/p>\n
“I’ve also made the box in a Brutalist design to to complement Arlington’s,” added Mitchell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitchell first noticed the birds of prey swooping overhead when he was attending an outdoor music concert at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-435886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}