March 29, 2006

• Beautiful creature. Rip the flesh right off your arm! It would!
• Cool link. Are we absolutely sure this is live?
• well that is really cool, petebest. very very beautiful bird, its fantastic to see it upclose like that, altho right now its just sitting around, looks kinda bored....
• While I watched, Mr. Eagle preened a bit, glared at the camera, got up, turned the eggs, sat back down, glared at the camera again. He must know it's there; why would they tolerate human contact so close to the nest?
• Just part of the scenery.
• Holy cow, that's close up. Anyone else reminded of Sam from the Muppet Show?
• It's broken! I typed "sing" but it doesn't do nothing. What do I do wrong?!?!?
• I have been watching this all morning. Simply awesome in my opinion.
• Just part of the scenery. Yeah, but someone had to climb up there and install it. Last I heard, eagles don't take too kindly to people getting close to their nests. Just wondering is all.
• Not as mind-snappingly cute as our Duke, but a bit more awe-inspiring.
• Yeah, but someone had to climb up there and install it. Last I heard, eagles don't take too kindly to people getting close to their nests. Just wondering is all Good question. It's funny, but I'm so used to seeing this sort of thing in nature documentaries that I've stopped considering how they actually manage to accomplish this kind of shot.
• Wow! Beautiful creature and a very well done implementation of a web cam. Hornby Island is right in my neck of the woods - gorgeous place. Best post of 2006!
• Y'know...from behind, he looks just like Edgar Winter.
• Here's some info on eagle nesting which also has links to a couple more webcams.
• I understand that they rerun the video at night.
• Very impressive! I'd guess they place the camera when the nest is not being used, i.e., after the chicks have fledged and before the next mating season.
• That sounds awfully simplistic, fish tick. My guess is some sort of robot-eagle decoy that makes pleasant, unassuming conversation with the *real* eagle, thereby lulling it into a sense of comfort and security. I would also surmise that the real eagle and the robot-eagle also have secret eagle-crime-fighting identities which they don each and every night as they soar over the troubled national forest landscape searching for helpless raptors to rescue from the seamy clutches of a park gone bad. Oh, and there's a camera in the robot-eagle too.
• That sounds about right.
• D'oh!
• Beau'iful bird. Lovely plumage.
• He seems tired and shagged out after a long squawk. Oops. Wrong video.
• I don't know if it was the wrong video, there, petebest, because he sure did let out a long squawk a couple minutes ago, and he's now looking a mite shagged out.
• And you totally have to re-post this once the chicks hatch. That'll be fascinating to see. And with the camera angle, probably much better than when I was trying to see that baby panda smudge on the Discovery channel webcam.
• More info.
• 'kin hell, it's a fuckin Eagle. I'ma go fullscreen on this motherfucker.
• Wow, it's lookin' around and everything. Wow.
• Uh-oh - a warning from a relative: I warn you that once the eggs hatch, it's not going to be a pretty scene. Several groups of birds, including eagles, some owls, cormorants and others practice obligate siblicide -- the first chick born kills the second. Almost every eagle you see has killed its younger sibling. The eggs are laid some time apart, to ensure a definite size and strength difference between the two chicks. The second egg is merely insurance in case something happens to the first one - infertility, loss, crushing, etc. So, parental discretion is advised once the first one hatches!
• *clings to GramMa's skirt, hides*
• In September of 2004 Doug Carrick organized that a video camera be placed in the nest. This was the one month period when the eagles were absent and the climber's presence would not deter future breeding. So, no robot eagle. Huh. Go figure.
• pooty parper!
• Wikipedia says they lay one to three eggs per year, so one surviving fledgling isn't too bad in the overall scheme of things.
• Aw, crap. Webcamthingie doensn't work here at, eh, work. Was looking forward to having it all work day on its' own monitor, the most gorgeous screensaver ever...
• There, there, Pete. No reason to be afraid of the eagles. Just watch your eyes. They always go for the eyes.
• CBC weighs in.
• Rats. The other day I could see the feed, now all I get is a scroll about their advertisers and then nuthin'.
• Ahh- that would be the rat's nest cam. No wonder you're having trouble.
• Can't blame them for putting some advertising on the site. According to a post in the forum their bandwidth costs are now over $50,000 per month.
• ching ching, baby! That's makin paper offa nature!
• Chick number one expected April 26! The camera's getting a little iffy these days - I blame stupid MeFi.
• We're gettin' close!
• Alas, no chicks for the Hornby Island pair. There is a good live webcam of baby e-gulls in Maine here, though. I had to stop watching when they started shredding a medium-sized mammal of some sort, mind you.
• You mean no chicks yet?
• Eggs were both duds, alas.
• Wahhhhh!
• G'wan, petebest- go looka them American American aiglets. They's cute an' fuzzy an' rippin' up bunny flesh in the sweetest way y'ever seen.
• Awwww. Don't know what makes me sadder: no eaglets or that 'Soar Like an Eagle' ad.
• Let the Eagle Soar
• Huh - he's got a pretty good voice! Clearly he should quit his day job.
• Different nest featuring eaglets, for your eaglet-viewing convenience.
• *snif* Okay. either I don't see them, or they look exactly like sticks *snif*
• They were there when I checked it out. When they fell asleep, though, they looked like two piles of gray feathers.
• More sea eagles in Iceland than ever before
• Two eggs this morning!
• Over easy!
• A bit of a typhoon there this morning!
• Eaglet! visible during daylight, PST, natch
• Kazakhstan’s lone female eagle hunter