Chris Skipper from the project said: “It’s good he handed himself in, rather than us not knowing who did it, or why he did it.
“She [the peregrine] doesn’t expect to have the box bathed in green light at that time of night.”
Mr Skipper added that the falcons were now “back to normal” and the chick fledged for the first time on Monday.
He previously told the BBC: “She [the female peregrine] stood on the chick as she took flight. Thankfully it was only on its tail, but if it had been on its head it could have been bad news.
“And if it had happened a couple of weeks back when the chick was a lot younger and its mother was gone a few hours, it could have been fatal.”
The large bird box was set up in 2018 and the peregrines nest at the church…
