A climb up Derby Cathedral's tower yesterday revealed the news we'd all been waiting for: - the first egg of the 2019 season.Despite not currently having an internet link from the tower (and thus no live webcams at this time) we were able to directly access our cameras and retrieve a number of motion-activated clips. This suggests that the first egg was laid sometime between 22:30hrs on 31st March, and 03:00 on 1st April.
At this stage we can't promise when we'll have our webcam connections up and running again, but it's certainly great to be able to share these moments with all our blog readers.
11 comments:
How wonderful to see these great pics/vids ... thanks team!
Fantastic News and how wonderful that has the Old system still in place with Nick M climbing up to retrieve footage.
You are all amazing. many thanks.
Looking forward to another successful season.
Good news! :)
Wonderful news that the first egg has arrived and that the two are bonding well. At least we have these few videos to keep us up to date thanks to Nick M. Can't remember how old our female is but let's hope she's able to provide three or four chicks once more this season.
we loved seeing the peregrins. they lookt vary delieted and prowd to see their new egg. we saw the male fly off to get food and the feemale looked afder the egg. we think there mite be too eggs now becuse thay lay one egg evree two days.
Hi Zebra Class: we are really pleased that you like watching the peregrines!
One of us is hoping to visit the cathedral today and check whether there is a second egg yet.
As you correctly say, there should be since the female tends to lay eggs every two and a bit days!
All the best
The Project Team (Nick, Nick and Emma)
Would be very special to have a new egg today, the day that Froona passed away ten years ago.
Thanks Team
and well done Zebra class, keep up the observations ,and do post, as we watchers not in Derby rely on all sightings, so you are really appreciated.
Yay, we have our first egg. This is my 5th year watching the eggs hatch, the little ones grow. Thanks to my friend Julie, I have lost touch with her but she got me addicted to this watching the peregrines. Lets hope for 4 eggs and all going well for them. Thanks to Nick for keeping us posted.
By the way I am in Canada on the west coast. Hello to all!
Hi Vicky: great that you are still in touch with our project and birds - and from such a long way away too!
A second egg was spotted yesterday...further details to follow.
The project team
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