Outstanding view of a nesting American Eagle

American Eagle TV ^ | 4-24-02

[afraidfortherepublic]

Ther is the greatest site available on the Web. A Web Cam is aimed right at a nesting American "Bald" Eagle near Minoqua, Wisconsin. You may have seen part of this on Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel this morning. Go Here to watch the show. Or copy and paste americaneagletv.com into your browser.

The eaglets are due to hatch May 1, and the Web cam will be focused on the parents and the nest until the chicks are grown and have flown away. You need Real Player, which you can download from the site. It also helps to have a fast connection.

There is audio with the picture, so I have been running this behind my other work. Every once in a while I hear a little squawk, and I pop the picture forward and find that the nesting eagle is turning the egg or repositioning herself in the nest. Just a little while ago, her mate flew in with food for her. Both birds remained in the nest for about 5 minutes, and then the hunter flew away in his search for more food.

This should get quite exciting next week, so I hope a lot of people take advantage of this opportunity to watch our great American symbol raise a nest of little ones!

Enjoy!

[HairOfTheDog]

These two switch off sitting the nest... one comes back and the other will go hunt for awhile. Lately they have been bringing food to each other, but only for the last week or so, maybe expecting the hatchlings will be there and hungry. The Kent cam has been active for three years, and they have produced surviving offspring each year.

Here is the link to the "Notes from Down Under" - the observations and diaries of the couple who own the house under the nest, from the same site. Ooh look quick! - the honey is back! - with some kind of critter to eat it looks like. How nice of him.

[GretchenEE]

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[jellybean]

Marge Gibson is the founder and director of theRaptor Education Group here in my little corner of the world.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Marge Gibson feeds an adult American Eagle before its release last January.

What a wonderful picture! Thanks for sharing. I have gathered all the links people have put on this thread and have sent them to a teacher I know for use in her classroom in Germantown. They are completely "wired". She posts the children's homework assignments on her Web page. I'm sure she will enjoy sharing these links with the kids.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Look at the picture that jellybean sent us from Antigo, Wisconsin. (You'll have to open the thread and scroll to about 104.)

[Anoy11_]

I love this state!!! ON WISCONSIN!!

[afraidfortherepublic]

I've set up the EAgle Web Cam on a split screen with Free Republic so that I can browse FR and watch the eagle at the same time. I'm hooked, and it's just great. She just turned the eggs again.

[jellybean]

A slide show of current patients.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....cute!

[HairOfTheDog]

FYI! - NEWS FLASH - One of the Kent Eaglets has hatched this morning! - You can spot a little brown blob when Mamma (or Daddy) get up and move around! - One here, one still to come!

Kent Eagle Cam

[LibWhacker]

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Rats! Sounds like a great webcam.

[CedarDave]

Great site!

HOWEVER, look at the client list of their web host RealImpact. It's one of the most complete lists I have ever seen of enviro-wacko, liberal, leftist, and anti-private property organizations:

American Heritage Forests
Center for a New American Dream
Center for Public Interest Research
Defenders of Wildlife
Duwamish Cleanup Coalition
Earth Day Network
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
Environmental Defense
Environmental Resources Trust
GreenWorks
Humane Society of the United States
Idaho Conservation League
Jane Goodall Institute
National Audubon Society
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
Ocean Futures
ONE Northwest
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Progressive Animal Welfare Society
Save Our Wild Salmon
Save the Loomis Forest
Solar Electric Light Fund
Southern Power Plant Clean-Up Campaign
The Trust for Public Land
Union of Concerned Scientists
World Wildlife Fund
World Resource Institute

AFL-CIO
American Civil Liberties Union
Amnesty International USA
Childhaven
Communications Workers of America
Girl Geeks
International Campaign for Tibet
Legacy Project
NetAid
Northwest Forum, University of Washington
Operation USA
People for the American Way
Progress Project
Safe Crossings
Sound Portraits
Witness
Working for America Institute

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Center of Concern
Consumers Union
Dads and Daughters
Digital Partners
Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
National Consumers League
National Coalition for Consumer Education
ShoreBank Pacific Technology Project

American Forum
Association of Independents in Radio
Barbara Boxer 1998 Senate Campaign
Common Cause
Environmental Media Services
Environmental News Network
From the Top
Gore 2000
Independent Media Institute
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
International Forum on Globalization
Internews
JAMPAC
KING FM
KPFA FM
Maria Cantwell 2000
Public Campaign
Public Interest Research Groups
Radiant Communications
Ralph Nader 2000
Shadow Conventions
State of the World Forum
The Visionaries
TomPaine.com
Transom.org
US Conference of Mayors
Washington Conservation Voters
WNYC AM/FM

and
on
and
on
and
on!

[steveegg]

'Tis a great picture. Thanks again.

[mafree]

Eagles bump!!

[petuniasevan]

Have you ever visited the Owl Cam website?

The owner has a video camera built into a Barred Owl nest box in Massachusetts.
Great shots for this season, and the past 5 seasons!

[B4Ranch]

The best bird show in my life happened in Oregon one spring when a small trout was plucked out of the the lake by an seagull. The 10"trout was flipping around on the ice and an osprey came down grabbing the trout in mid flip with the right foot. The seagull was scared backwards and fell on it's butt all the while flapping it's wings trying to regain it's footing. When it did finally stand again it looked at the ice the the osprey and just hung its head in despair. My wife and I laughed for ten minutes.

[Wednesday's Child]

Bumping this in case anyone missed it.
I've been watching all week and it's fascinating. The eggs were due to hatch approx. May 1.....still waiting!
I keep it running in the background all day long.
It seems like the parents are much more active in the past few days. Hopefully, that's a sign it won't be too much longer.
Thanks again for the link.

[Wednesday's Child]

One of the eggs has hatched!!!

[Pokey78]

Yep! I've seen only 1 little gray fuzzball so far. (I only have 56K dialup, so the picture is kinda jumpy)