It's now 24th June and still at least one of the juveniles is using the platform and therefore is visible on the web cams.
Long may it continue!
Peregrine Falcons first nested on Derby's Cathedral, England, in 2006. Our Peregrine Project is now run by a partnership between Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Derby City Council, Derby Cathedral and the Cathedral Quarter. Here is what's happening in 2025. . .
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Many thanks for the new page which will enable all the die-hard followers to post more easily as we watch the juveniles visiting the scrapes😀
I have so many cameras to watch around the country online, the entertainment from these lovely fledglings & parents makes it worth getting up in a morning its amazing how their characters show through love it.
Just looked at Leicestershire Peregrine Webcam & so comical all 3 babies lined up snuggled together in a row, & been reading about the antics they have been getting up & having to be rescued from courtyards & taken back up to the nest site. Most cute & entertaining more so every year thanks to all the support workers/volunteers that continue to keep these wonderful birds safe
This our my first year watching a live cam. We didn’t expect to grow so attached to the family! Every time we get to see at least one of them, our day gets better
An update on St Albans chicks, growing well as this feed at 09.40 shows ...
https://youtu.be/ueFRZ8uCKXg?si=RLdOxVx0_9dOyPYK
So pleased you are enjoying watching their progress, the addiction grows year on year!
This is my footage, a blip called me anonymous!!
Does anyone know where the St Alban's nest is relative to the size of the building, they sound very close to people and traffic from the background noises.
Wherever they are it is extremely windy, so noisy in fact it's hard to hear any chick noises and gets so irritating that recordings have to be muted!
Not been lucky today in seeing any juveniles or adults in the scrapes!
Nope me neither
Me neither.
Back home ..watching the world go by
Yesterday was a bust… did hear the juveniles cries twice offscreen but no show! Very good to see one adult this morning (and a youngsters’ shouting nearby but the parent isn’t fazed lol)
Haha, we can’t wait. And to read the peregrines have been nesting at the cathedral for almost twenty years, amazing!
They were already given (silly) names by my partner, now we only need to learn how to tell them apart…
It happened so fast, but looked like one of the juveniles got tired of shouting for food and dive bombed the parent perched on the nest and they flew off! No one is back yet
Thursday, 10:00 - I was in my bathroom and I heard a Peregrine calling! A quick look out of the window that there were two Peregines circling together overhead, before drifting away. I'm in north Derby - not far from Uttoxeter Road Cemetary - so these were almost certainly two of the Cathedral birds. Given that it was a bit of Peregrine shouting that first alerted me to the birds, I suspect it was one juvenile and one adult. Moreover, this time last year, the Peregrines became semi-resident on the tower of the nearby St. Luke's church.
Noisy youngster on the nest, but quieter now, think its the female
oh shes gone now 10:59
Yes, that's the juvenile female, with sharper and brighter pale fringing to the wing feathers and a more strongly barred tail compared to her brother.
Back home enjoying the view !
Just noticed that a St Alban's chick is out of the nest, do hope the parent will still feed it ...
https://youtu.be/g3GU0B3JlKs
It made it back as soon as there was the chance of food, unfortunately it was only a leftover scrap
https://youtu.be/IZFKXlMkTkg
St Alban's chicks had a good feed this evening ...
https://youtu.be/0KQ60NhalLE
Thursday, 9:10 pm - The juvenile female is on the platform eating some fresh meat. Did she bring it to the platform herself? Catch it herself? Or was she fed by an adult? When I looked at the platform only a short time ago there were no birds at all.
Don't know I saw this too and wondered the same . She was eating for along time!
Same here, as I checked the camera they were already having their meal
On Nest Cam 2. There appears to be a bird motionless in the bottom right hand corner of the screen
Nest Cam 2 what dead bird is that? Thought it was a sparrow but the pictures not brilliant.
Yay, one of the juveniles just landed on the platform
Friday, 10:30 am - What looks like the juvenile male this time has returned to the platform to eat the apparently uneaten pigeon that was already there.
I feel sorry for that one St Albans chick who keeps getting squished under the wooden thing by the other two.
We actually stopped by the cathedral today in hopes to spot the family. Heard the shouts of a youngster then spotted him perched way above the nest. Also managed to spot a peregrine flying overheard but couldn’t guess which one… it was beautiful still!
One of the siblings is right now trying to eat some leftovers
That's nice. The Peregrines have mostly kept away from the platform today; however, plenty of shouting has been picked up by the audio on Cam1, from juvenile birds that are clearly somewhere nearby.
Young female on camera 2, just flew off as bells rang at 6.00, young male on camera 1 on perch
No sign of any of the St Albans birds. Chicks or adults. Nest is empty.
The camera has been adjusted. Can now see 3 chicks being fed just off the scrape closer to the camera position.
Looks like someone was home for breakfast earlier
Saturday, 5:50 pm - I came out of the LIDL supermarket at the bottom of Uttoxeter Road to find two Peregrines circling together high overhead. In reality, they were still only a few seconds from the Cathedral in one direction and a few seconds from my garden in the other, where I had seen them circling over a couple of days earlier. The birds were clearing interacting together - drifting apart - then coming back together again, with apparent feet-to-feet contact on about a dozen occasions. Potentially one adult and one juvenile bird, with some training going on? Potentially practicing aerial food passing? Just once, both Peregrines came quite low down, close to LIDL, and there was some brief shouting, before they drifted away again, this time over the old Friar Gate Goods Yard (currently being revamped) before I lost them from view. It was lovely to see them tumbling and interacting together.
Ahh I’m so jealous! Glad to know they’re safe and sound (and learning) since today was a no show… could only hear them offscreen now and then
Saturday, 9:50 pm - The juvenile male is on the platform, tugging away at what looks like some of the remains of a pigeon that I think have been there since yesterday.
Thanks for that info Morgan, there was another feed at 21.05, have been checking on& off all day and never saw another feed
Interesting article here ... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly23rpn704o
Just when we start telling the youngsters apart, they show up less and less!
Good article, and that photo is adorable
The young male showed up a few minutes ago but didn’t stay long. Must be hungry…
A direct repeat of what happened yesterday at the same time.
St Alban's chicks ringed this morning
Youngster turned up 11.49 am, shouting a lot
and then flew off again at 11.54
First feed post ringing and were not happy, not enough food ...
https://youtu.be/FfZx7b6kqPk
No ringing details yet
They've just had another feed now but again not a big feed . I wonder if the heat is having an effect
Tuesday, 1st July - It's been very quiet on the platform for a couple of days, but I just checked in again a 6:50 pm, to find the adult female stood on the edge of the platform dozing (cam2).
Lovely to see her again!! Also we could hear one of the juveniles shouting in the background at first
We have a visitor at 20.27
https://youtu.be/Ww3Ej6g_IJM?si=37Y2Euc-ljUjJ0br
Tuesday, 1st July - The adult female stood on the edge of the platform for about three hours this evening, but had left by 10:00 pm.
At last I've seen someone at home enjoying the view
Think it's the adult female
Yay, what a treat. If only she’d move a tiny bit to her right…
Wednesday, 2nd July - Yes, the adult female flew in at 1:30 pm; I wasn't watching the screen at the time, but I suddenly heard noises through my headphones. At 12:15 pm, I'd previously heard one of the juveniles shouting somewhere nearby, but they didn't come to the platform. The adult female was still on the platform after 2:00 pm.
When she first flew in, it was at the other end of the platform, making her fully visible on Camera 2.
Ringing of St Alban's chicks
https://t.co/OUaCXqi2MG
Wednesday, 2nd July - 2:45 pm - Wow! The second adult Peregrine suddenly turned up on the platform to join the first. These days, it's certainly very ususual to see both adults on the plarform at the same time. There was a short period of apparently noisy greeting, but it seemed to be the tigger for the female to leave the platform, having been there for 75 minutes.
Maybe it’s cooler there? It’s been unusually hot these past few days…
Funny little cotton balls
So which ones there now ?
4.18 pm lots of noise, young one arrived and the adult left immediately
I think that's a good point. The platform was noticably shaded when the adults were around. With slate-grey plumage, the birds might heat up quickly, especially if they'd been flying about in the sun giving prey-catching lessions to the juveniles.
The adult female stayed around for about 75 minues until the adult male turned up. The male seems to have a whiter chest, whereas the female seems to have a more speckled chest. The female is 'larger', but it's really hard to judge the size when there is one bird on it's own. I've been trying to take a look at the amount of speckling to the chest in an attempt to sex the adult birds.
Difficult to determine which one but there's an adult on the platform visible on cam2
Trying to cool down perhaps? Looks like what we see black birds doing in our garden, what with the beak open and wings spread.
And flew off!
We had a Peregrine Falcon in our garden in Oakwood last night.. enjoying their evening meal of pigeon. Amazing to watch.
One of the young ones was just now at the nest. The male perhaps? Didn’t stay longer than a few minutes (from when I opened the video)
Super, wonder if it was one of the cathedral's!
It appears from the shadow on cam1 that one is perched on the camera.
I'm glad you spotted that! For the last two evenings (Wednesday and Thursday) a Peregrine seems to have done exactly the same and stayed around for a couple of hours on both occasions. While I could see no shadow (if was evening), the loud sounds were revealing. Over headphones, I could hear the Peregrine moving about and apparently having a good scratch on one occasion. There appear to be 'anti-bird' spikes on top of the camera itself, so the Peregrine seems to be sitting a little further down on the attachment (which make a good perch), with all the vibrations being picked up my Camera1. If you scroll through the images from one of the 'official' blog posts, you will see what I mean, as one of the photographs shows Cam1 and its attachment quite clearly (along with the anti-bird spikes on the camera itself).
At last someone's back home enjoying the view
Saturday afternoon - Yes, I checked in a 3:10 pm to find an adult sat on the edge of the platform. I think it was the female, but not so easy to tell from the position. I've been listening in (but not watching) most of the morning and it's been very quiet, although there was brief shouting around noon. The adult didn't stick around long - about 10 minutes from when I first saw her - but she could have been on the platform a while before that as I'd been away from the cameras for some time.
Back at home sitting on the ledge
Ah, true, and still there!
Awww them poor St Albans chick's are drenched bless them they need a roof putting on their nest
And growing so quickly. Their plumage is changing almost by the minute!
Saw an adult for 5 mins on the nest a long time ago.
Keep hearing a little pitiful noise quite regularly from one but cant see any birds, hope its ok.
typical now its quiet
Opened the page around 18:00 and there was an adult on the platform. Few minutes later a juvenile showed up but the adult was gone. Lots of shouting later and the juvenile also took off but it was nice to see them again.
Tuesday, 12:30 pm - Adult Peregrine perched high up on the tower of St. Luke's Church, Derby, opposite Stockbrook Park. It was still present when I walked by again 30 minutes later. The Peregrine was sat on one of the protruding rain drainage channels, near the top of the tower. I posted a couple of weeks ago that Peregrines became semi-resident on the tower of St. Luke's Church last year. St. Luke's Church: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Luke%27s_Church,_Derby
Adult on scrap as I type but I'm very nervous of watching the at Albans as every time I go on there's one or 2 not there 🙈🙈
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At last I've tuned in to find someone at home , I've missed seeing them at home
I came on to say exactly the same thing! First time in ages I’ve seen someone at home - it’s lovely to see 😁
Wednesday - Yes, lovely to see an adult back at the platform, the male I think. Flew off at exactly 10:00 am, at least for the moment.
Is that a shadow of a bird I see perched on the cam?
They are still all there Nattalie, just keep spreading themselves out and cam can't cover all areas in one go, managed to catch a feed this morning with all three together ...
https://youtu.be/j5gUAaLrAFM?si=yn9zzB2Z_jFL9jp8
Sun not out at mo but I can hear tell-tale scraping sounds of a bird moving about
Yes, I heard the sounds and saw the shadow of a Peregrine earlier. Also take a look at some other comments from 4th July. It was the first time that I saw the shadow today but, based on the loud scratching and banging sounds alone, it seems to be not uncommon that a Peregrine stands on the attachment to Camera 1.
They are all there they must have a long area they can use . One of them has found his wings and runs up and down flapping and stretching them
They do like to perch on cam for some reason ... used to happen at Sheffield quite often too, the cam got knocked offline more than once and had to be rebooted!
Thursday, 5:25 pm - 5:40 pm - I had an opportunity to drop by the Cathedral. Not a sight of the Peregrines, or a sound, during the 15 minutes I was there. Given the glorious weather, perhaps they were away having lessions, or more likely, perched somewhere in the shade.
Noticed the scrape in the shingle is very pronounced, as if it's been newly made.
Saturday, 4:00 pm - Adult Peregrine arrived on the platform; I'm not sure which, as pretty much on the feet, legs, and belly are visible, given the current position.
Stayed around for 10 minutes, before flying off.
5.54pm 2 adults on the platform, very friendly towards each other, think the female then flew off, male stayed.
just gone
Saturday, 5:52 pm - First the adult female Peregrine, then the adult male, arrived on the platform in quick succession. There was some brief audible greeting by both birds, with their heads bowed, before the female soon flew away, leaving the adult male behind. I wonder where the juvenule birds are? I haven't seen or heard them for several days and both adults are back at the Cathedral.
Saturday, 9:04 pm - The juvenile female has just arrived back at the platform for a good old shout!
Sunday, 1:53 pm - An adult appeared very briefly on the platform for a matter of seconds.
Yeah, lol we heard the call, changed to the page to excitedly see one of the adults aaaand gone.
One of the adults is on the platform!1!
Adult on the platform
Just had a quick peek and still there nice to see one at home
Indeed. They just left a few minutes ago...
Tuesday, 15th - Lots of shouting on-and-off, particularlly all morning, so presumably one of the juveniles spent most of the day nearby, but I didn't spot any Peregrines visiting the platform today.
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