{"id":558299,"date":"2026-03-24T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558299\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:22:12","slug":"hamiltons-peregrine-falcons-lay-first-eggs-of-the-2026-nesting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558299\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton&#8217;s Peregrine Falcons lay first eggs of the 2026 nesting season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton\u2019s resident Peregrine Falcon pair, Judson and McKeever, laid the first eggs of the season!<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Hamilton Community Peregrine Project have confirmed the egg sighting in a nest located at the Sheraton Hotel downtown early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A second egg was seen just after 7:23 a.m. on video as seen on the Hamilton Community Peregrine Project website.<\/p>\n<p>Falcons typically lay eggs just over two days apart, so the next egg is expected sometime Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>McKeever could lay up to four eggs this season. To watch the live camera of the falcons, <a href=\"http:\/\/falcons.hamiltonnature.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \u201dnofollow\u201d\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-184362 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Falcon-2-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton\u2019s resident Peregrine Falcon pair, Judson and McKeever, laid the first eggs of the season! Members of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-558299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}