Forget the battling Duckies of Weatherfield, a new couple is taking over the Manchester soap scene this week - a pair of peregrine falcons who are nesting at a top-secret location in the city centre - dubbed Featherfield by the M.E.N. Starting yesterday, images from the nest are being beamed onto the BBC Big Screen in Exchange Square every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday between 11am and 6pm.
Luckily for the non-ornithologically minded, experts from the RSPB are on hand in the square to explain what's going on. Hopefully later in the summer we'll be able to see the couple's offspring hatch and fly the nest - let's hope they're less trouble than that Terry Duckworth.
The soap's all part of the RSPB's Aren't Birds Brilliant initiative, a series of projects giving you the chance to see some of the UK's most exciting birds. Thanks to Lesley from Action Ribble Estuary, I've found this information about the project in that area, too.
Fortunately for the soft-hearted, romantic Mancunian viewers, our city centre falcons are very much an item, but spare a thought for Albert, a lovesick Albatross who's spent the past forty years fruitlessly searching for a mate on a Scottish island miles from his natural habitat. If you can bear to read the heartrending story, visit the BBC's site.
Perhaps Albert will soon be following in the soapy talon-prints of our own a-list birds, maybe with a groundbreaking new series of 'Celebrity Love Island'?
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