Nottingham nestcam.....

has it gone then

looks like its gone wasn't there yesterday afternoon or today

wonder where its gone, it wasnt old enough to fly and leave the parents surely.........

hope thats the end of it then ,champion

strange they havnt made any coment about where its gone ray, they did when those three died due to the bad weather didnt they........

still no sign of the yb or the parents..............

made my day getting that flat oppisit the nest

yes and having that high powered sniper rifle too.............

George

gaza b in the bushes lying in wait to smash their heads in...........

WAKE UP !!!

Wish I had Georges Rifle.

wonder where the peregrine yb has gone, been missing now for a week maybe...........the last time i saw it in my opinion it wasnt ready to fly, so wheres it gone

Thanks Peregrine Cam fans!

Wednesday 30th May
Thanks Peregrine Cam fans!

As Peregrine Cam 2012 begins to draw to close, we reflect on its success - an enlightening and rewarding experience enjoyed by so many...

Our little surviving chick 'Storm' is all grown up, and flying around with his parents. Any day now he'll make is final flight to leave his parents. We'll be switching off the cameras on Friday 15th June (don't worry, we'll be back next year!)

Our Communications Manager Erin McDaid now reflects on the rollercoaster ride that has been Peregrine Cam 2012...

As I stood watching our remaining chick ‘Storm’ feeding alongside his parents high on the Newton building yesterday, I reflected on what a uniquely exhilarating and testing time everyone involved in this year’s project has had over the last four months.

When I say ‘everyone involved’, I mean the whole team at Nottingham Trent University who have done an amazing job trying to keep the family in view on the wonderful cameras, as well as those responsible for writing blog entries and responding to more than 2,000 blog comments.

I also mean my colleagues at Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, who have helped to answer some of the more difficult questions posed by our army of interested watchers. In addition to the teams at both NTU and my NWT colleagues, I mean the countless thousands of people who have been gripped by the story of Storm, his parents, and the siblings that sadly didn’t survive.

Over half a million hits!

When we re-launched the web cam just 16 weeks ago we were hopeful that improvements to the camera set up – giving us arguably the best wildlife web cam in the UK, with its amazing city centre views and pin sharp images of wild peregrines – would lead to an increase in web traffic. We had no idea just how popular the camera would be this year or just what a story would unfold before our eyes.

As soon as it was launched it was extremely popular – the warm spring meant that the adults were visible straight away and the HD quality and roving zoom meant great pictures from day one.

However, as the weeks passed and the weather turned, the level of interest reached unexpected highs. Before the chicks had even hatched we were approaching the quarter of a million views we achieved last year. To date, the sad story of the three chicks that died, followed by the uplifting efforts of the adult birds in trying to ensure their remaining chick survived, has generated almost 700,000 views

The accompanying blog – launched to give us the ability to provide a more detailed commentary on the birds’ behaviour and to generate dialogue between the team and our watchers – has so far received more than 200,000 views. This is a spectacular level of interest which none of us could have foreseen.

Thank you!

As Storm has spent less and less time in view of the camera, questions have turned to messages of support, and on behalf of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and our colleagues at Nottingham Trent University, I’d like to thank everyone for their extremely kind words.

There have been some testing times over the last few months and it has been an enlightening experience for everyone involved. The support we have received from viewers in 99 different countries makes it all worthwhile.

The naming competition proved extremely popular and we are delighted to announce that the winner, Jill Cox from Berkshire, has been sent her peregrine falcon toy.

that yb couldnt fly, im not peregrine expert but i dont think it was flying when it disapeared..............sounds like lies to me fabricated to keep joe public happy and believing its all done for the sake of the peregrine, not to secure funding for other projects etc.

I agree could not fly

no way that bird could fly, it either got blown off or they flogged it to a falconer

something dodgy gone on steve, that yb couldnt fly so wheres it gone ? plus i come on the live stream quite a lot and have never seen the parents either, where are they ? obviously they know the yb isnt there........but why is the camera still running ?

lets hope it got bown off the edge if it has been floged then the rspb should get done for the illegal selling of a protected BOP but this would never happen as long as they've got a HOLE IN THEIR ASS

funny, it was just probably at the right age to sell on to a falconer...........whos to know what these people get up to eh.

no one knows mate thats the problem they're all a bunch of t@@ts

just seen the falcon slaughter a pigeon and feed it to its young.. i know we all hate this bird but what a sight some predator it is..

the twating things ripping into a bird now must say this cams good though cus while i see the fecker sat there your test birds are safe

are you back gaz

its just killed something ,but i,m not sure what it is yet

dont worry ray its not a test loft bird i counted um and i dont let um out till the bitch is sitting