Peregrine falcons at Albi

These birds of prey have been nesting in the spire of the cathedral for nearly 20 years now and as with many such places here and in the UK they help control the pigeons.
The mairie at Albi has produced a leaflet in English as well as French giving the background to their life at the top, as well as detailing the cooperation with the LPO to install web cameras.
The birds had their own blog at http://fauconpelerin.mairie-albi.fr/ which has several videos shot during 2012 and this year's brood of 4 have now fledged, their progress monitored on the city's parks and gardens blog.
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Circulation closed in Place Saint Cecile, Albi

For 5 months driving round the Albi Cathedral will be banned as work tales place on the cobbled road. The work completed a couple of years ago at huge expense has proved for want of another word to be " rubbish" and needs redoing. As well as the road blocks being relaid work is being done on the facade of the Cathedral and the building is clothed in scaffolding. On the bright side what a wonderful city Albi is and it will appear looking glorious again before too long.
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Place Sainte-Cécile at Albi, deviations around the Cathedral

What a load of aggravation they have had with those expensively badly laid cobblestones. For the next few days they are using new cement doing " a safety job patch up"
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