The Presidio Raptor Cam Is Officially Back (With Nesting Hawks), Baby

For the first time since 2019, the livestream has a nesting pair of red-tailed hawks caring for two eggs

Three Baby Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) In a Pine Tree Nest waiting for one of their parents to feed them. (Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images/GMA)

When PG&E’s Falcon Cam went dark in October of last year, there was a coordinated sigh across the city. For years, thousands found joy in watching peregrine falcons nest, lay eggs, and raise young atop PG&E’s 77 Beale Street building. But that digital window into the lives of those elusive birds shuttered after the embattled, contentious utility moved its headquarters to Oakland — leaving the beloved livestream to completely dim.

However, don’t fret! There is another livestream that avian aficionados can glue their pupils to which features predatory birds living their best O Magazine-approved lives: the Presidio Raptor Cam, which just came back online.

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(Also, FYI: It’s likely that PG&E’s Falcon Cam will return. After all, it was part of the ongoing work from Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the…