Posted on 04/25/2002 12:55:24 PM PDT by 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!
Are you sure the squirrels aren't the juvenile delinquents? LOL
You're too late! After he cried on TV in New Hampshire in 1972, he was dead meat! George McGovern ended up cleaning his clock, before losing to Nixon in November.
You'll have to watch a little closer, now that it's spring. The blackbirds will attack the other birds nests for the hatchlings if they find them. The other birds know that, so they try their best to be evasive when going back to the nest.
I plan to bookmark this page and come back every day until I see hatchlings! Shouldn't have to wait too long -- it's almost May 1.
I've hatched eggs in an incubator and watched them crack (it takes a long time.) But I don't know if the Mama sits on the eggs while they are cracking, or not.
I know that when the chick finally gets out of the egg, it is just exhausted and just lies there looking dead for a while until it dries off and can scramble to its feet. I don't want anybody to get too upset if these chicks look dead right after they hatch.
They say that you are not supposed to help the baby bird get out of its shell. If you help by removing or opening the shell, the bird will die. There is something about the struggle that makes a healthy bird -- at least that is what the farmers say.
When you go to the eaglecam, there were two different cams working, but a few days ago there was a problem, so right now only one cam is working...it refeshes about every 10 seconds...
There are two eggs in the nest, and they are due to hatch during the third or fourth week of April, which means they are due to hatch anytime....take a peek...here is the website, just typed out, because I dont know how to link to other websites...
http://www.wa.gov/wdfw/wildwatch/
I have been watching this particular website for several weeks now and it surely is exciting...will be great when the babies hatch, and we can watch mom and dad feeding them...
Enjoy
My boys are watching this now and saying COOL!
MKM
Here is a nice shot I took awhile back of our Washington Eagle parents:
Here is the link to my photo album of Eagle shots Enjoy!
I will go check out that live feed now LCS, just now getting home!
The eaglecam in Minoqua, WI on this thread is only viewable during the day, Central Daylight Time. Although the Kent pictures are closer and clearer, the Minoqua pictures are live streaming video with audio too. They are both exciting sites. It's fun to listen to the eagles call to each other when the male brings food. It's a rather quiet call, but it's enough to get my attention so that I bring the picture forward on my desktop and get to see the action. It really makes a big noise when he takes off from the nest. I imagine that is what angels' wings would sound like! LOL. Whoooooosh!
The Minoqua eagle also has two eggs in the nest, and they are due to hatch May 1. Perhaps we'll have eaglets at the same time in both Washington and Wisconsin.
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