TWO peregrine falcon chicks saved from the brink of death after being poisoned have been released back into the wild. The pair was taken to an RSPCA wildlife hospital after being found almost lifeless at their nesting site near Colwyn Bay, North Wales. Police are investigating the attack and tests are being carried out on a dead racing pigeon that it's thought had been laced with poison and used as bait. It had been attached to a piece of string and lowered down a rock face alongside the nest. RSPCA inspector Nigel Edwards said yesterday, "The two chicks have been tagged and the nest will be monitored very closely from now on. "As peregrines become more common problems increase. Some people don't like them because they will take racing pigeons." There was a pair of peregrine falcons with four chicks but when the nest was checked all had disappeared. Police sergeant Darryl Price, the local wildlife officer, said, "We're still following up lines of inquiry. A woman who found the chicks had thought one was dead." | 
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