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UPDATES: 2025: The first egg was laid in the south side scrape on 13/14 March 25. The fourth egg was laid on 21 March and the clutch now seems to be complete. All being well, the first chick should hatch on my birthday - 17th April. But it will probably be a day or two after that! I used to livestream the cameras via my home PC. This meant I had to keep it powered up 24/7 - not cheap with power bills nowadays. As of today - 26 Mar 25 - I am using a remote server to livestream. This is a more robust solution, but it costs me ~£40 a month. If you would like to, you can help me with these costs at https://gofund.me/b0d1a15c or by going to https://wildlifeprintstore.com/produc... and buying a Lincoln Peregrines booklet for £5 including UK p&p or a set of 10 peregrine postcards for £9.99. There are other wildlife prints available there too. This livestream shows the breeding pair of peregrine falcons that make their home on the Bell Tower of Lincoln cathedral in the UK. I am Bruce Hargrave and, together with my colleague Matt Ashton from the University of Lincoln, we installed and set up two cameras to observe the birds back in the Winter of 2018. Quickline - a local broadband company - generously allow us to use their equipment to make this stream work. In 2022, Chris Skipper, Colin Lea and I replaced the cameras for better units. These new cameras were funded by me and Colin, but we also had some generous donations from some other 'peregrine fans' - thank you! We currently have three cameras. These were paid for by me and Colin Lea. We did have some generous donations via a GoFundMe back in 2023. But Colin and I spend our hard earned quite regularly on upgrades and a recent new camera. We also put in a lot of hours out of season in the freezing cold sorting out snags, renewing gravel and doing general maintenance. Clearly, we are complete heroes! One camera overlooks the nest site on the south side of the tower. There is a gravel filled scrape there which was set up especially for the peregrines. Another camera looks east, over the top of the old wooden nest box installed back in the 1980s. We call the top of this box 'the larder shelf' as the adult birds sometimes cache their prey there to eat later or to feed to the chicks. The old nest box was used by the current female in 2023 (two eggs and two chicks) and 2024 (four eggs and four chicks). We put a camera in it in Dec 2024. This, of course, ensured that the female would never use it again! This year - 2025 - (as I suspected!) she has decided to move to the south side scrape. The current theory is that very cold easterly winds in Jan and Feb persuaded some peregrines in our region to lay in more sheltered spots. Or she knew there was a camera in her box and she wanted to show us that she was the boss! OLD NEWS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS FEB 2023 The adult female was at least 19 years old - she was seen to fall from the sky, dead, on 18 Feb 2023. She was on her 2nd or 3rd mate and had successfully raised at least 35 chicks since records began in 2007. 4 eggs were laid in 2019, 3 chicks hatched and fledged successfully. At least 3 eggs were laid in 2020, but none of them hatched. We hoped for better news in 2021, but no eggs were laid. Both adults had been seen mating and preparing the scrape, but 2021 was another year without chicks. FEB 2022 Due to the lockdown restrictions in England, we were unable to replace the cameras before the 2021 breeding season began. We had planned to do this in late 2020 - with hi res cameras with sound - but we finally managed to do it in early 2022. This was a joint effort by Chris Skipper (who installed the cameras for the Norwich and Cromer Peregrines), Colin Lea and me. Colin and I paid for the new cameras (about £500 all told), but we also started a Go Fund Me so that other peregrine watchers could contribute. You can find full details at https://gofund.me/eed823e9 Thank you to all of you who have contributed so far! If you use Facebook, you are welcome to join our Lincoln Peregrines group. A local falconer had also told me that one reason for no eggs being laid in 2021 might be that the gravel in the nest tray had gone "stale". It was certainly pretty mucky! The cathedral Works Dept very kindly replaced the gravel in early 2022. So we now have new gravel and new cameras! Unfortunately, no eggs were laid in 2022 - perhaps the female was too old. In the Summer months, our local RSPB branch usually sets up a watch point on the East lawn of the cathedral, near the Tennyson statue, with scopes and lots of information. Pop over and see them too. Read more about the birds at https://www.brucehargravephotography....