Wildlife
Peregrine Falcons: 3 Live Cameras — Mississippi, Baltimore
Three nests in the United States: two on cliffs above the Mississippi, and one on the 33rd floor of a building in downtown Baltimore.
What you can see
Three peregrine nests. Two are on river cliffs, one is on a city building, which is the range of places a single species will choose.
Castle Rock (Wisconsin) is a rock tower above the Mississippi. After the Raptor Resource Project began releasing birds from the bluffs in the late 1990s, this became one of the earliest historic eyries the falcons came back to; they have nested here again since 2002 and fledged many young. The river valley and the town of Winona are in view.
Great Spirit Bluff (Minnesota) looks out from a cliff above Lock and Dam 7 on the Mississippi. The camera is right inside the nest, so the adults coming and going and the chicks growing are directly in front of you.
Baltimore (Maryland) is on the 33rd floor of the Transamerica building downtown. A pair called Boe and Barb have nested here for years and raised brood after brood above the city. Mating, laying, prey brought back to the ledge and the feeding of chicks all play out through the season.
Cameras you can watch now: 3
All 3 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Castle Rock peregrine falcons (Mississippi)
Wisconsin, Fountain City · Wildlife · River
A peregrine falcon eyrie on Castle Rock, the rock tower above the Mississippi River. It is one of the earliest historic eyries the falcons returned to after the Raptor Resource Project's cliff releases in the late 1990s; they began nesting here again in 2002 and have raised many young. The river valley and the city of Winona are in view.
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Live video
Great Spirit Bluff peregrine falcons
Minnesota, La Crescent · Wildlife · River
A camera on a cliff face overlooking Lock and Dam No. 7 on the Mississippi River. The family known as the Great Spirit Bluff falcons nests on this cliff, and the angle is inside the scrape, so the adults' comings and goings and the chicks' growth are right there.
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Live video
Baltimore peregrine falcons (33rd floor)
Maryland, Baltimore · Wildlife · City
A camera on the 33rd floor of the Transamerica tower in downtown Baltimore, where the peregrine pair Boh and Barb have nested for years and raised brood after brood above the skyline. Mating, laying, stooping on prey and feeding the young all play out over the season.
When to watch
None of the three providers names a season. These are nest cameras and the picture changes completely through the year, but we are not going to invent a date for it here.
The two Mississippi cameras are 14 hours behind Japan on daylight saving time. 6am there is 8pm in Japan, noon there is 2am the next day, and 6pm there is 8am the next day. Baltimore is 13 hours behind, an hour earlier. In winter both shift an hour later.
So Japanese night through the following morning is daylight there.
The city nest keeps some shape after dark because of the streetlights. The two cliff cameras go essentially black.
If it isn't showing
All three also appear on the United States page. Living subjects are collected under Wildlife, and riverside cameras under River.
For other raptor nests there are Ospreys, Bald Eagles and Owls.
On choosing what time to open one, see Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Peregrine Falcons
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- explore.org (Deep links and embeds OK, no image reuse) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.