BIRDS -- Just in time for Mothers Day, three chicks hatched in a peregrine falcon nest on the 14th floor of a downtown Boise building where a web camera supplies streaming video for the public to watch the family grow.

The Peregrine Fund spokeswoman Erin Katzner says two chicks hatched Thursday and another on Friday.

Biologists will put bands on the chicks in early June before the birds fledge in mid-June and leave the nest at One Capital Center, she said.

Four chicks successfully fledged from the nest last year.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game workers assisted last year when several of the young birds ended up at ground level in downtown Boise before becoming confident flyers.

Katzner says the parents are believed to be the same two unnamed adult falcons that have used the nesting site the last several years. Unlike ospreys and eagles, falcons don't build a nest. Eggs are laid and incubated in a “scrape,” which the falcons build by pushing the gravel out behind them with their legs.

Called an eyas, a chick stays warm under its parent during the brooding period. Chicks are fed by both parents, who make sure each chick receives enough to eat. They are in the nest for six to seven weeks.