identified after travelling almost 100 miles to Bolton.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n ![]()
Peregrine Falcon in Bolton (Image: Ste Hulme)\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Walsh said preserving safe nesting areas during maintenance work on the town hall remained important.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cOne of the important considerations is that it doesn\u2019t disrupt the breeding cycle and keep them coming back.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think it matters that Bolton clearly has got an important place. The buildings of Bolton clearly provide the environment that Peregrines like.\n<\/p>\n
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Peregrine Falcon in Bolton (Image: Ste Hulme)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey nest and roost in rock buildings. Clearly the Victorians, the parish church and town hall give the environment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n He added that Peregrines often roost on the sheltered side of towers, depending on wind direction.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Walsh said: \u201cAs far within my control, we will do nothing to disrupt their return.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cEverything in our power to maintain that safe environment and keep down pigeons, which can cause problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The beautiful Peregrine Falcons have returned yet again to roost in the town with some saying it proves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-950542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116550610801920507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}