The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' Nongame Program is broadcasting a Web streaming video of peregrine falcons nesting on the top of the Bremer Bank Building in downtown St. Paul.  With the help of the Town Square merchants as well as the Midwest Peregrine Society, The Nongame Program is able to provide this unique opportunity to watch peregrines raise their young in an urban setting.

In 1987, a nesting box was placed on the east side of the building and was first used by a pair of falcons in 1988.  Several pairs of falcons have chosen this site as their home, producing 61 chicks through 2011.  If they return, this will be the 9th year that the pair "Jill" and "Sota" have occupied the box.  Sota hatched in 1994 and has been nesting since 1998.  Despite missing two toes on each foot (probably due to frostbite), and being 17 years old, Sota has been able to provide enough food for himself, all of his offspring and his mate during incubation and early brooding of chicks.

Learn more this peregrine falcon project and watch a video of last year's brood at Bremer being banded.