23rd November 2009
Our ref: RFI #620
Your ref:
The Quadrant
Newburn Riverside
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
[FOI #23496 email]
NE15 8NZ
T 0300 0600846
F 0300 0602302
Dear Mr Canning
Access to Information Request - Acknowledgement – RFI #620
Thank you for your request for information about:
“Please supply all the information that you hold on the EX-Peregrine falcon nest site at Chattlehope Burn,
Kielder [near Catclough Reservoir on the A68 to the Scottish Boarder] that was monitored by Brian Little for
the Forestry Commission. I am especially interested in the numbered of people that were licensed to
disturb the nest site in 1992 to 1993 and the information people sent in on the EX-nest site over the years. I
am especially interested if you can confirm that the nest site in question always had four egg clutches and
the fact that the 1992 records on the number of eggs laid were not submitted in 1992 yet the years before
and after 1992 were submitted until the site was taken over by ravens?
Given the fact that the original peregrine falcons that occupied the nest site back 1992 must be dead and
the fact that peregrine falcons no longer occupy the nest site there is no reason not to release the
information requested.”
which we received on 23rd November 2009. We are dealing with your request under the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004.
Your request is being considered and you will receive the information requested within the legal deadline of
20 working days. If, for any reason, we are unable to meet the deadline we will keep you fully informed of
the reasons for this.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me.
Yours sincerely
Ben Heathcote
Knowledge Management & Information Services