New photos of our pair and the first egg followed by two more....

Update Saturday evening - egg number three appears!

Update Thursday morning: a SECOND EGG was laid early this morning, spotted by Jean. With luck we'll have a full clutch of four by sometime on Monday.

Update: we have our first egg today (10th), a whole week earlier than in 2024!
It was spotted this afternoon by eagle-eyed regular web cam watcher Kate down in Devon. Here's her screen grab:

And here's a video captured by Wendy Barrter clearly showing the egg which seems to have been laid just before 3pm.

Go to the comments to see many more videos posted to YouTube by Wendy.

On 3rd March, Dave Farmer, who is a regular photographer of our birds spent three hours down at the Cathedral watching them and taking photos.

He wrote: 

"I arrived at 11.50am. At 1.45 action ensued.
The male was perched on the right hand lead rain spout looking quite relaxed.

The male on the lead spout. Dave Farmer
(easyphotography.co.uk)

He left suddenly to chase away a second female which he did really easily.
Whilst he was doing that the "real" (resident) female took up station on the nest platform. She was continually scanning the sky.

The resident female keeps a wary eye.   Photo: Dave Farmer

(easyphotography.co.uk )

As this was my first visit this year, I don't know if mating has taken place but I think the odds are that it has."

Thanks so much Dave!

Scroll down to the previous post to read about the abseil to clean up the platform and see the comments below it which include links to the video clips that Wendy Bartter makes and puts on YouTube for us.

The Project Team
This project is managed by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust with support from its partners, The Cathedral, Cathedral Quarter & Derby City Council's IT team.

The project is celebrating its 20th year! There have now been OVER 5 million hits to the web cams and blog since 2007!