{"id":578125,"date":"2026-05-11T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:48:08","slug":"three-peregrine-falcon-chicks-hatch-at-st-albans-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578125\/","title":{"rendered":"Three peregrine falcon chicks hatch at St Albans Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two eggs were laid in the first year of breeding in 2022 and one failed to hatch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A live webcam was installed in their nest tray the following year, and curiosity in the birds and their growing family has grown ever since, the Trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The webcam received more than 500,000 views last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ellis added: &#8220;[As] the chicks develop and begin to move around more, they may disappear from the view of the webcam from time-to-time, but in all probability they are just exploring the rest of the nest tray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Very Revd Jo Kelly-Moore, Dean of St Albans Cathedral, said: &#8220;These remarkable birds have become much-loved members of our Cathedral community, and it is a joy to see their family continue to grow year after year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two eggs were laid in the first year of breeding in 2022 and one failed to hatch. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-578125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578125","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=578125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}