A pair of the world’s fastest birds have laid four eggs on the top of a Watford hostel.

The YMCA Charter House announced yesterday (April 8) that two Peregrine Falcons have successfully nested on the roof of the building and could have their chicks there.

The charity has a livestream on its website of the special nesting tray placed at the site earlier this year, and one of the endangered birds can be seen huddled at the site.

Single Peregrine Falcons were spotted on the roof of the iconic building as early as 2014, according to the YMCA, but it was in 2017 that the birds were confirmed to have bred there for the first time in Hertfordshire.

The YMCA said it appeared the former ageing pair had been replaced by a younger, “unringed” or unmarked couple which were spending more time around the tray and that breeding was “looking very likely.”

Although the birds failed to mate there last year, there have been at least 12 chicks confirmed to have been born on the building since 2019.

In 2023, a fundraising abseil by hospital charity Raise was forced to change location from Charter House to the atria to protect a pair of the falcons nesting there.