The 2012 breeding season has started for the Nottingham Trent University peregrine falcons. This year the cameras are better, have sound and night vision and the university and Notts Wildlife trust are going to be regularly updating a blog. [...]
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Two videos today: I managed to grab some video of the falcons feeding their chicks swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/bfZIjPZAMhY&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-177-youtube-1″, “640″, “480″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/HZApnNvuw8s&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-177-youtube-2″, “640″, “480″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); The time is nearly here. With the last egg (4th) being laid back on the 29th of March 2011 we should be seeing the 1st of the baby chicks any day now assuming the incubation period is about a month. The 3rd egg was laid yesterday so we may start to see the peregrines start to incubate the eggs or they may try for another egg, only time will tell. Looks like the 2nd egg was laid around 6am on the 25/03/11. 1st one was laid before 5am on the 23/03/11. Shortly after the 2nd [...] swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/uvCflI_I2Wg&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-153-youtube-1″, “425″, “344″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); 
The falcons have finally landed I’ve been waiting for the pair of peregrine falcons to turn up on the university webcam and at around 17:00 today (22nd) they made their appearance. All we need now is some good footage of the peregrines snacking on some pigeons and this week will be off to [...] |
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