Chicks are hatching.....

 Update Wednesday a.m.:
Looks like the last egg won't now hatch.

Nick Moyes was on national BBC Breakfast show this morning.
Here's the link, One hour 42 minutes in:
BBC iPlayer - Breakfast - 01/05/2024 

Welcome to all first time visitors to the blog and the web cams!
If you scroll down the blog you'll see what's been happening recently.


By Monday morning (29th) the three chicks were visible in the morning sunlight as seen in this screengrab by Kate:

To read more of the hatching story, scroll down to the previous post.

Meanwhile, here's a video captured by Wendy Bartter this afternoon (29th):

The Project Team
This project is managed by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust with its partners: Derby Cathedral, Derby City Council and Cathedral Quarter.

Photos, news of four Watch Point events and now three chicks!

Update at 7 am Saturday morning: early web cam watchers have seen a chick and by lunchtime there were two! Screenshots below by Helen and Kate and video by Wendy.
And by Sunday morning there were three......

Screengrab by Helen showing both chicks:

And here's a video by Wendy of a feeding attempt:

Photographer Dave Farmer took these fine photos of our peregrines mid week, copied here while we waited for an egg to hatch!

        The male sits on the camera avoiding the plastic (anti-pigeon) spikes intended to                                stop him sitting there and possibly fouling the lens!
                               Photo: Dave Farmer (easyphotography.co.uk ).

 The female leaving the platform. Photo: Dave Farmer (easyphotography.co.uk )

Here's a screenshot taken today by Kate showing the smaller male and larger female plus four eggs still.

Watch Points 2024

There will be four Watch Point events behind the cathedral on the green this summer enabling visitors to use our telescopes to see the birds 'for real' and close up.
The dates for your diaries are all Saturdays:
18 and 25 May and 1 and 8 June.
Further details nearer the time......

The Project Team
This project is managed by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust with its partners, Derby Cathedral, Derby City Council and Cathedral Quarter.

Good news for iPhone viewers

 Update 24th April: Get ready - we think one of our eggs has already 'pipped'. Hatching seems imminent! Check viewer comments on this post for the latest updates from our keen webcam watchers.

We're pleased to be able to announce that both of our web cameras can now be viewed on all iPhones!

For the last year or more, old iPhones could display NESTCAM 2, but not those with modern versions of Safari or other browsers. It seemed ironic that my ancient iPhone5 worked OK, but not my recent purchase of a modern iPhone SE. This all came to a head whilst we tried to adjust the position of NESTCAM 2 whilst dangling on an abseil rope without being able to see how our changes were actually affecting the view! 

After finally investigating the issue, our webhosting  supplier, Streamdays, appears to have resolved the issue. Thanks, too, to Tim Unwin from Derby City Council. This is a screenshot taken today on an iOS 17 device. Whilst only NESTCAM 1 has sound, it's great that mobile users can now watch either camera.

(Eagle-eyed viewers might already have spotted that NESTCAM 2 is lagging an hour behind. We'll try and fix that next time we're up inside Derby Cathedral tower.)

Please let us know by leaving a comment if you're still having difficulties viewing either webcamera, but make sure to describe what system you are trying to view them on.

The Project Team