Bald Eagle Webcam

Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor

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Is anyone interested in wildlife?

Jo-Anne saw this site mentioned on CBC and since then we are hooked. It is a broadcast quality webcam giving streaming video and audio looking into a nest of bald eagles. The website is counting over 2-million hits a day and an average simultaneous connection count of 5,000 viewers! The webcam has already captured a female bald eagle going into labour and laying 2 eggs. It is the first time it has ever been seen. The male and female eagles take turns to sit on the eggs, and the changeover time is always a time of great interest. They are due to incubate over three days at the end of the month. Be warned it is compulsive viewing and don't expect this to be blurred stop-motion video with an indistinct dot in the middle of the screen!

http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/default.asp

The nest is in the top of a Douglas Fir that has no pointy top. It is located in Hornby Island which is just of the coast of Vancouver, Canada.

Andrew Taylor
Toronto - Canada
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I live quite near there, I dont understand why we need a webcam to see an eagle, there are plenty around.

Gord
 
Eric_425 said:
Is it not live? It's night right now, and the bird's in the daylight.
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At night time they replay the days events.

Grob said:
I live quite near there, I dont understand why we need a webcam to see an eagle, there are plenty around.

Gord
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Gord, have you ever seen an eagle lay an egg? Ever seen eagles change shifts in sitting on the eggs? Ever seen them turning the eggs and fluffing up the moss in the nest? Ever seen an eagle look you in the eye where you could see it blink? It's not the same seeing them flying at 200 feet up.
 
The egg and chick would be pretty cool. I've seen them working on a nest and sitting it but never the egg itself.
 
This is pretty cool, thanks for the link Andrew! Today I got to see I guess it was the male squawk a bit then stood up adjusted the eggs (2 of them) and some twigs around, sat back down and pulled more twigs closer to his body..yep was pretty windy and he did not look to happy:D
 
This is totally the coolest webcam footage that you could ever get! Thank you soooooooooo much for the link!
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-Heather
 
Wow! it has been some time since I watched the Eagles so I missed the hatching....but...check those kids out now! With them up and woobling about maybe close to feeding time...?...That I would like to see since I missed the rest:grumpy:
 
Sweet. A lot has happened since I first posted. The first two eggs were infertile and didn't hatch. The birds did their best, but they are getting 'elderly'. Eventually they ditched one egg, and then ate the remains of the other. The adults flew off to do their own thing. The nest now being shown is elsewhere and the birds are younger. Whereas the original nest had the camera in the tree, this new nest has the nest up a tree and the camera up a crane. That is why the nest seems to sway. I makes me a bit seasick!
 
I've been watching this eagle-cam for a while - it's great.

On another forum, someone mentioned that there'd been a similar webcam set up in New England somewhere a couple of years back. Folks enjoyed the show until Mama brought home a not-quite-dead-yet house cat for the chicks to snack on. Predator is as predator does...
 
That's pretty cool, man.

Ya know, it would be neat if I could do the same thing with our den of foxes at the farm. They dug a place to stay under a slab of concrete in front of our old hog house. The momma has five little ones, that are about the size of a smallish cat now. The other night I watched them playing and chasing each other from about 10 feet away.
 
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