Swift (female) and Beau (male) have called the water tower at the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Orange campus home since 2008 and now new cameras allow us ground dwellers to watch them in high definition.

There have been cameras streaming live footage in the past but until now it hasn’t been in high definition.

Falcon Cam project manager Scott Banks said the new technology allows viewers a greater insight into the world of a peregrine falcon.

“The image quality we’re streaming in terms of the colour has now allowed us to identify the birds right down to the feather,” he said.

“We’ve got full colour and high definition, it means it’s much, much easier to determine the types of food they’re bringing in.”

There are two cameras directed on the CSU falcons.

CSU’s original camera peers into their nesting box while the newest camera is on the box’s ledge and it quite often captures Swift and Beau surveying their vast territory.

Mr Banks said the volunteer Falcon Cam crew has witnessed the falcons returning to the nest with prey.

“There’s the odd galah and some of the smaller birds,” he said.

“The camera runs 24 hours a day and the quality of image we’re getting is as good as anywhere in the world.”

While Swift and Beau did produce three eggs this breeding season, Mr Banks said they were all destroyed in “natural circumstances”.

One was accidentally broken by Beau as he flew out, while the other two were destroyed by the falcons.

“We think the [remaining two] eggs were infertile,” he said.

“[Despite this] it gives us the opportunity to look at the different behaviour patterns when there’s no immediate family around.”

Check out the live footage of Swift and Beau at www.falconcamproject.org.