Eggs hatch in South Bend falcon nest. Video link moves to YouTube.
SOUTH BEND — Two of the five eggs have hatched in the peregrine falcon nest atop the County-City Building, and now they have a new internet home.
The live “Falcam” video through which folks have been watching the nest has moved to the city of South Bend’s YouTube channel. The old web address, which was a city site, now directs you to www.youtube.com/@CityofSouthBend/streams. There, you can click on the “Falcam” video link that says “live.” Or more specifically, the live video link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYt6tlGV4Ds.
March 22, 2024: Five falcon eggs now: Flash and female start 2024 season in downtown South Bend nest.
City web administrators say this is a permanent fix for the old site that viewers have had trouble accessing recently. The old site also had some historical information about the falcons.
Now, about the eggs, two of them hatched on April 27 and 28, according to nest watchers from the website Bird Cams Around the World. The adult falcon pair, Flash and an unbanded female, apparently pushed one of the eggs to the corner of the nest.
As The Tribune has reported, the eggs were laid from March 21 to 25. Experts have said that it typically takes 28 to 32 days for eggs to incubate before they hatch. If too many days follow after that, the eggs run the risk of becoming unviable, which is probably the case for the egg in the corner.
Last year, the same adult couple also produced five eggs, out of which two hatched, dubbed Skip and Elaine.
The year before, in 2022, the nest saw four eggs, none of which hatched.
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