Posted on 03/15/2015 5:38:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
To celebrate the state's thriving bald eagle population, the Pennsylvania Game Commission installed a live nest-cam late last year near Hanover. For those not watching, a pair of eagles worked together for weeks constructing the nest, taking breaks to swoop down on potential food, all in preparation for the arrival of their eggs.
The first egg appeared on February 14, followed by a second three days later. After a month or so of incubation, the eggs are expected to hatch around March 21. All of the action can be viewed on the live-cam.
One of the more eye-catching frames from months of footage came last week during a snowstorm as one of the eagles remained with the eggs, braving the conditions and buried in snow.
Talk about timing on eagles. See my post 14 seconds ahead of yours where a mini-cam is attached to a Imperial eagle.
I love Eagles.
Bald Eagles are amazing creatures.
Here’s a link to the MN DNR eagle cam. Three hatched, two have survived.
http://www.webcams.dnr.state.mn.us/eagle/
And here’s a link to a bald eagle neat in Hays, a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA:
http://www.pixcontroller.com/eagles/
There were 2 eggs, but it appears one was broken, possibly infertile. :(
I have been watching them for two weeks, very messy parents. The bigger eaglet kept pecking the little one and I didn’t think he/she wouldn’t survive. I also watch the eagles at Berry College, they have 3 cams, one with sound and one for night viewing. They are addictive.
Thanks for the post. Great to watch Bald Eagles in the wild.
One of the Harrison Mills eaglets starved to death in 2013 due to a brutal sibling and not so good parents.
It was just awful to see and I had to stay away from eagles for a while.
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Last Sunday a neighbor was going by on his sled, so I flagged him down, and we got to talking. He mentioned a nearby Bald Eagle nest, which I didn’t know about, and I had not seen any Bald Eagles. Well not 2 minutes after the subject came up, right over my house flies a Bald Eagle, flies downto the river behind my barn and lands in a tree. 5 minutes later another flew down to the same tree and you coukd hear them carrying on squawking to each other. The timing was unreal.
My favorite thing at the Kennedy Space Center was the 50 year old eagle nest complete with two bald eagles.
link to the live cam
http://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/bald-eagle-live-cam
This one is great also. Great horned owl:
http://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/great-horned-owl-cam
My husband has been watching this more than a week. My friend and her husband live in Hanover, and she was aware of it already, too. Invited us to “visit”!
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