Falconcam is back!
We've just started broadcasting live pictures from inside the peregrine falcon nest on the side of the BT Tower in the centre of Birmingham. If you want to see for yourself just click on this link.
We hope to be launching Falconcam properly this Friday on Midlands Today and BBC WM.
We've had quite a nervous afternoon as our peregrine mum disappeared and left the eggs for what appeared to be a couple of hours. This seems really unusual and does remind me of the behaviour of the falcons we followed last year at Fort Dunlop. Of course in the end those eggs didn't hatch.
But peregrines in cities are relatively new as indeed are live video cameras in nests. It may be we're learning more about the behaviour of these birds in an urban setting. Sadly you can't see the pretty pink eggs as they are just below the camera and out of shot. But we do believe there are at least four of them and provided mum doesn't disappear again we hope to have four chicks very soon.
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