Falcon Cam is back for 2025!
Welcome to the 2025 season of the Richmond Falcon Cam! We’ve been keeping an eye on the camera the past few weeks and have observed both the female (95/AK, silver band on right leg) and the male (59/BM, green band on right leg) from recent years on camera almost daily. This pair has been nesting here since 2021 and have raised four chicks together every year since then. Although peregrines can switch nesting sites within their broad territory over time, based on their behavior so far, we anticipate that the pair will nest on cam again this year. The female has moved up the timing of her egg laying a little bit each year, with the first egg laid on March 28 in 2021, and on March 18 in 2024. We expect egg laying to begin sometime around mid-March this year. Until then, be on the look out for the birds as they periodically stop by the nest box throughout the day.
Since 2017 our partner Comcast Business has provided the internet connection that powers the Richmond Falcon Cam – we are grateful for their continued support of this wildlife viewing opportunity!
The male (59/BM) perches on the building’s parapet ledge on March 10th, 2025.
During the Falcon Cam offseason, we received updates on two of the chicks that were raised on camera last year. Unfortunately, female 99/BK (last year’s ‘Yellow’) was found dead along a rural roadside in Westminster, MD in mid-August of 2024, roughly two months after fledging from her Richmond nest 150 miles away. Based on the condition of the bird, the person who made the discovery judged it to have been dead for quite some time. They did not retrieve the bird, and a cause of death could not be determined.
92/BN (‘Red’ from the 2024 brood) stretches on a tree branch at Echo Lake Park (Richmond, Virginia) in January of 2025.
On a more positive note, male 92/BN (‘Red’) was spotted in the greater Richmond area on January 26 of this year. The bird was documented by a local birder and photographer at Echo Lake Park, only some 12 miles from downtown Richmond. You may remember that, following banding, Red had a small mass removed from one of his eyelids at the Wildlife Center of Virginia last year, so we are heartened to know that he is doing well.
We look forward to reporting on the falcons throughout their nesting season this year and welcome you to join us on this journey! If you want to receive falcon updates directly to your inbox, you can join our subscriber list on out our Falcon Cam homepage. This page also includes links to our FAQs as well as archived posts that outline the events of previous seasons.