IT seems Worcester will be without peregrine chicks for the second year in a row.

The breeding season has now ended and there are no signs of nesting behaviour at the falcons’ previous breeding ground at St Andrew’s Spire in Deansway or Worcester Cathedral.

The birds of prey have attracted thousands of visitors to the city over the past few years and their progress has been closely followed by hidden cameras installed on the spire.

But there have been no sightings of Bobbin, a two-year-old female and one of four chicks hatched named by Worcester News readers, for almost seven weeks. Caroline Adams, project officer for the RSPB’s A Date With Nature project, said it was likely Bobbin had gone to nest elsewhere or to find a mate, but there was still plenty of activity in the city.

She said: “We have had other peregrine falcons around. For the last two to three weeks, they have been flying around the cathedral and the spire.

“The other day we found evidence the peregrines had been feeding around and on the cathedral and there were reports of the falcons having been seen there. Earlier this week, we saw a female flying from the cathedral.”