buckee Posted May 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) There is an eagle sitting there now, but I have no idea what is under it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) I finally did get access Steve,, the Eagle was there but when it flew off the nest was complete empty... Eagles don't cover there young with nest material when the nest is unattended do they ???? I thought the male and female shared the nesting of young,, man I need to do some reading on these birds.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted May 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) I got this from the Eagle Discussion forums on the site, [ QUOTE ] by Leasa Lush As i was saying to someone else on the general site, unfortunatly it is looking like the male ate the egg!!!! i didnt see it for myself though but my son was watching it and said that the eagle seemed to eat the baby (now my son is only 8yrs old) so im not sure did he see the eagle eating the egg or did the eaglet hatch and die. im not sure but i do know that the male eagle ate some of the egg. Its soooo sad! [/ QUOTE ] and then [ QUOTE ] Well as i said earlier my son said he saw 1 of the eagles eating what he saw was the baby eaglet but i was unsure about this whowever my mum watched it with him and i asked her exactly what she thought she saw, this is what she said.........1st of all it looked like 1 of the eagles (prob male) picking the shell up, standing at the edge of the nest and then droping it. Then she said it looked like he took the eaglet and ate it! i couldnt imagine that happening and i told both my mum and son that, and she said Thats what it looked like, they wernt 100% sure though. does anyone know is it common for the male to eat there own young when dead?? I dont know what to think about this. [/ QUOTE ] The female keeps leaving, then fixing up the nest, sitting for a bit and leaving again. Maybe, just maybe, she'll try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) [ QUOTE ] Maybe, just maybe, she'll try again [/ QUOTE ] I sure hope so Steve,, I was so pumped about the hatching,, this is such a trajidey.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted May 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) Nature can be really cruel sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whttlbucksteve Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) That is relly cool my daughter loves it THANKS alot buckee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtechTurkeyHunter Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) [ QUOTE ] Nature can be really cruel sometimes. [/ QUOTE ] Its all part of the system ... cruel as it may seem its all part of it .. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted May 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) Looks like we have an empty nest now guys ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) [ QUOTE ] Looks like we have an empty nest now guys ... [/ QUOTE ] Sorry to say!! That is the way life is though!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) Steve, seems these 2 Eagles have become quite the celebraties.... ,, Here's the front page of YAHOO.. Eagle nest webcam a huge hit Sat May 6, 7:49 AM ET http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/...s9NWqeJkAuj2g-- VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - After the last egg of a suddenly famous family of bald eagles vanished before a worldwide Internet audience, a Canadian conservationist has begun setting up more wildlife Internet cameras. For weeks, a camera pointed at a nest of eagles on Canadas west coast has streamed their life-and-death drama to as many as 10 million Internet watchers each day, becoming one of the worlds most popular websites. "Its absolutely bizarre," said David Hancock, who put the eagle images on line. In a lifetime devoted to nature issues, the 68-year-old biologist and book publisher said he has never seen such a huge audience enthralled with wild animals. The web camera's owner is David Carrick, an accountant who retired 15 years ago on Hornby Island, in Canadas westernmost province of British Columbia. "We had no idea it would catch on like it did," marveled Carrick. An Internet site was the last thing on Carricks mind when he decided he wanted a close-up view of an eagle nest in his back yard. In 2004, while the birds were away on their fall migration, he obtained government permission and had a tree-climber install a small camera beside the nest, connected to Carricks house. The camera, which the birds ignore, provides an intimate view of their aerie. After Carrick shared video recordings of the nest with community, school and naturalist groups, Hancock happened to see them, and offered to put the nest live on the Internet for Carrick. At first the camera, linked from hancockwildlife.org, drew a mere handful of viewers. There were more Internet hits as the pair of bald eagles laid two eggs in late March and spent the next month tending them, and traffic steadily increased. By early May, when one egg mysteriously vanished and the fate of the second hung in the balance, the website's popularity spread like wildfire. The popularity may be due to the mystique surrounding bald eagles, creatures so striking with their white head, piercing yellow eyes and an eight-foot wingspan that the United States made them a national symbol. Bald eagles mate for life, and live as long as 50 years in the wild. But Hancock thinks there is more to it than the birds image. "Were all fighting two jobs, two computers, two careers and half enough time to deal with any of them," said Hancock. "And there, sitting on your desktop computer, is this bird that doesnt give a **** about it all, but just gets up and rolls its eggs over." Hancock had originally offered to pay for the computer resources through his publishing company, but was soon shocked at the cost of running such a popular web site. "It was just donations from my end, with my daughter and a manager running the publishing company," he said. "We had to cap it at spending 5,000 Canadian dollars (4,500 US dollars) a day for bandwidth." A Vancouver company, Infotec Business Systems, offered to donate computer resources, the project drew some donations, then Microsoft phoned and offered 1,500 Canadian dollars per day in bandwidth. The nest is being streamed live each day, but this week it is a sad home after the second egg disappeared. Internet viewers watch the birds constantly rearrange the moss on their nest, as if looking for their lost young, and continue to sit as if on eggs. "For all these millions of people, it just ends," Carrick worried. Hancock said it is a mystery why the chicks failed to hatch. "This pair is exemplary, they are the perfect parents." One theory is pollution. Hancock said that like other long-lived animals at the top of the food chain, bald eagles accumulate heavy metals and man-made chemicals like pesticides as they feed on fish from the ocean. "The Pacific Ocean is contaminated. Every part of the Pacific Ocean is contaminated. Probably these birds level of toxicity is pretty high. Maybe thats shut down their reproductive systems." Hancock is now setting up webcams at two more eagle nests, and plans to install another camera to observe large so-called "spirit bears" on the coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughboy1956 Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) Both male and female adult bald eagles have a blackish-brown back and breast; a white head, neck, and tail; and yellow feet and bill. Which one ate the young? I know nature can be cruel sometimes, but was it helped along by humans in this case? Maybe the adult did not want the youngen that close to a camera. Who knows? I know i was watching the other day. The adult got up and moved around and i could not see no youngen. Very sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenW Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) This cam is up and running again on a new nest on the coast near Vancouver BC. T[here two baby eaglets in it This is a link that will take you there by way of win media player directly mms://array.galaxytelevision.net/hh001 cut and past to the address bar of your browser and click go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) Very Cool.... thanks for the link.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted May 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Re: Bald Eagle Cam (New Link) I started a new thread with the new cam, so no-one would get confused by this thread. Thanks Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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