Residents enjoy watching chicks with bird cam

3:45pm Wednesday 7th May 2014 in News

RESIDENTS have been all of a flutter at a Worcestershire care home after a bird watching camera was set up in their court yard.

Elderly people living at Rashwood Care Home, in Wychbold, near Droitwich, have been enjoying keeping an eye on the comings and goings of the family of birds since the bird cam was installed.

Deborah Sorenson, from the care home, said the camera was similar to that of Spring Watch on BBC1.

"We are watching the camera on the library TV," she said. "When she laid the eggs we watched them hatching and now we are having great joy watching the mother feeding the birds and bringing the food to them. There are eight chicks in the nest. It's very similar to Spring Watch.

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Bird cam! Rare birds nest on top of council offices can be viewed live

A pair of peregrine falcons have laid an egg after returning to their nesting platform on top of County Hall.

And budding ornithologists have the opportunity to see exactly what is going on in the nest, via a live web feed.

The egg, which is expected to hatch in May is in a unusual place for the fastest birds in the world, which traditionally nest on coastal cliffs.

Over the last two decades bird watchers have increasingly seen the falcons begin to move into towns and cities, where tall buildings provide perfect nesting sites.

Another factor that has tempted them to Aylesbury is the plentiful food supply in the form of flocks of feral pigeons.

Peregrines were first observed regularly in Aylesbury in the winter of 2006 and two years later a nesting platform was erected at the top of county hall. The birds first bred successfully in 2012 and have hatched young every season since.

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