{"id":519084,"date":"2026-04-08T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519084\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:14:08","slug":"peregrine-falcon-lays-three-eggs-on-roof-of-st-albans-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519084\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine falcon lays three eggs on roof of St Albans Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, a BBC Three Counties Radio listener named Beverley told presenter Roberto Perrone that she &#8220;felt sick&#8221; as she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq80yqnl54eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watched Alban and Boudica&#8217;s<\/a> eggs being destroyed on the live stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An investigation by Hertfordshire Constabulary into the incident remains ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement the force said: &#8220;The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have requested some further information from Hertfordshire Constabulary. Officers from the Rural Operational Support Team (ROST) are currently in the process of gathering this information and will respond accordingly to the CPS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the last four years, the breeding pair have successfully raised 10 chicks, with sightings of their offspring in Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Hampshire &#8211; and most recently in London Colney, just outside St Albans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, some 519,882 people viewed the live feed with the most popular day being 9 May when 12,598 tuned in to see three newly hatched chicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, a BBC Three Counties Radio listener named Beverley told presenter Roberto Perrone that she &#8220;felt sick&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-519084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}