City owls and hawks

[Martti]

When I saw this news I made me think are there any owls or hawks regularly nesting at city centres in Europe. According to the news the are around half a dozen of European Eagle Owls living at the most densily populated area in Finland, the city centre of Helsinki but there are also different species of bat, hawks and once a year we may even see a moose.

Eagle owl couple with chicks nests on rooftop of shopping mall in downtown Helsinki

 

[Totumpole]

There is a nesting pair of peregrine falcons in Marschall College in Aberdeen city cente.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~wmb010/news/peregrines.shtml

 

[sandbender]

Several kestrels near my place, not quite the city center though, they get a very hard time from the hooded crows. We also have at least one nesting pair of peregrine falcons at the Saint Stephen Basilica which is near the parliament building, right in the middle of Budapest.

Lots of owls, possibly horned owls, but I'm not sure.

 

[Martti]

The owls have grown a bit. I went to see them few days ago and they are almost ready to leave the nest.
http://omakaupunki.hs.fi/paakaupunk...n_pienet_cityhuuhkajat_opettelevat_lentamaan/

 

[chas brookes]

Hi
Chichester Cathedral have Peregrines nesting with live webcams link below

http://www.chichesterperegrines.co.uk/

http://www.chichesterperegrines.co.uk/live link.htm

 

[blacktimberwolf]

Several kestrels near my place, not quite the city center though, they get a very hard time from the hooded crows. We also have at least one nesting pair of peregrine falcons at the Saint Stephen Basilica which is near the parliament building, right in the middle of Budapest.

Lots of owls, possibly horned owls, but I'm not sure.

I've heard you have wolves & bears that visit the outskirts at night too....sorry,.I may have confused Budapest with Bucarest

 

[sandbender]

I've heard you have wolves & bears that visit the outskirts at night too....sorry,.I may have confused Budapest with Bucarest

A travel journalist for one of the UK broadsheets made the same mistake when booking a flight once. I cannot imagine that Bucharest has bears and wolves visiting the city outskirts, but I may be wrong. However for some of the towns and cities near the Fogaras or Carpathian mountains that can happen.

In Budapest we do have wild Boar visiting the city, driven here by flooding or lack of food.

Here is a picture of an Eagle Owl on a Budapest chimney pot...

http://www.alternativenergia.hu/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/uhu-bagoly.jpg

Apparantly they enjoy the heat transmited through the stonework and will put up with attacks by crows and magpies while they wait for something tasty to happen by.

 

[Martti]

One of the Helsinki owl parents has started to harass medium-size dogs as the chicks have started to move outside the nest.

News in Finnish by Helsingin Sanomat

 

[Globetrotter.uk]

Norwich Cathedral peregrine falcons lay first egg on Easter Sunday. Great news the nesting platform was only put up 9 weeks ago.

 

[shaggystu]

derby cathedral too http://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/

stuart

 

[redandshane]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_9138000/9138316.stm

We have Peregrines in Bath city centre as well. Interesting what they get up to