Author Archives: jaredntu

We are now accepting donations for birds of prey research

Our falcon cam service is free and always will be. Nottingham Trent University is happy to cover the cost of the cameras, servers and staffing that make this project work. But, since we started broadcasting our falcons to a worldwide … Continue reading

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Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust visit NTU to ring our falcon chick

Andrew Lowe, the West Notts Conservation Officer for the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, bought a team of experts to the NTU City site to ‘ring’ our soon-to be-named falcon chick. In this video you can see what they did and hear an … Continue reading

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British wildlife heavyweights hail the arrival of our chicks

As you will already know, our peregrine chicks (or eyasses as they are technically known) hatched this week. For those of you who missed it, here is a video of the fourth chick on its way out… Since then we’ve … Continue reading

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First peregrine egg laid in the UK this year!

As regular vistors to our webcam will know, our falcons are currently incubating two eggs, one of which is believed to be the first peregrine egg to be laid egg in a monitored nest in the UK this year. The … Continue reading

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A response to a few recent questions from the Wildlife Trust

We welcome contributions to this Blog from people with many different points of view and would like to take this opportunity to discuss certain points that have been made, regarding the perceived threats of peregrines, in particular with regard to … Continue reading

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Winging our way around the world…

In the first 14 days since we launched our falcon webcam for 2012, we have attracted almost 30,000 unique visitors from 61 different countries. Unsurprisingly, most visitors are from the UK (94.45%) around half of which (46.58%) are from the … Continue reading

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Welcome back!

With a mild spell in the weather at the end of January, our resident pair of falcons were seen to be inspecting the nest site. You can already see where they have made a scraping in the gravel in the … Continue reading

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