One of the 2015 chicks has been seen in Woburn, Massachusetts, about 220 miles from New York.

She is banded black/green 32/BC, so this is Wesley Kate 1 55! (I really liked the chicks' names last year.) It is great to know that she is doing well.

She is a beauty:



http://lawrenceperegrines.com/

As soon as she left, the male came into the nest. I am glad to see one of Pa's sons here. He is very handsome, just like his parents.

This is the resident female; it looks to me as if she has a silver band on her left leg.

At the end of December 2015 a webcam was installed at the Eindhoven nest.

The peregrines have nested in Eindhoven since 2011. From 2011 until 2014, they nested at the Technical Services building, raising ten chicks during this time.

Because of renovations/demolition of the Technical Services building, another suitable nest site needed to be found for the peregrines. They now nest on the South Tower of St. Catherine's Church. This was a familiar place for the falcons, who regularly perched on both towers. Last year, they raised three beautiful chicks.

The male at this nest, banded FT, was born at de Mortel in 2009 and is therefore a son of the legendary pair Pa and S2. The female is from Belgium, but is so far unidentified.

http://eindhoven.peregrines.nl/

Clara with her egg, looking very proud. She was not even in the scrape for very long before she laid the egg.

The 2016 season has begun! Clara just laid her first egg!

Had to leave for a while. When I came back, the GHO had moved into the tray.



The owl has now either left or gone back into hiding. It's after 12:30 a.m. at the site.

I feel bad for Pigott and George. Just when they had found a suitable nest site and had raised chicks. I hope the renovations will not cause a disturbance for them, but I suppose it depends on how extensive these renovations are going to be. Is there any other suitable location for a nest box somewhere in the area?

As far as I know, peregrines are still considered endangered in New York State. Unless this has changed, they had not been downlisted or delisted because "the population was not considered to be stable enough".

Good news! Looking forward to seeing the cam go live. Thank you, Donna!

The nest box looks somewhat like the one on Cobb Island, from what I can see.

Great pic! Thank you!

Lurking . . .

Not good for the falcons! 

You're right, MAK! Not good at all. The peregrines are no threat to the GHO, but the GHO is a major threat to the peregrines.

I have not seen a peregrine at the nest since I posted about the GHO. However, the GHO came back to the nest a few minutes ago and appears to be in hiding on the other side of the nest box, so that only a very small part of the bird is visible. Still there right now.

You're welcome, Kris! In the pic below the little chick is peeking out from under the side of the parent, with beak open.



There used to be a webcam at this site years ago; I watched it for several years, and then it went away. Glad to see a cam here again.

This new webcam follows a northern royal albatross breeding colony at Taiaroa Head, near Dunedin, New Zealand. The cam came online on Tuesday of last week.

There are 29 fertile nests this year. When the first chick hatched earlier in January, the Dunedin City Council flew a "Happy Birthday" flag from the civic center to celebrate the event.



The time at Taiaroa Head is 18 hours ahead of Rochester.

http://www.doc.govt.nz/royalcam

A visitor at the nest; gone at 11:38 am Rochester time.