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Posted by Christine Adams on January 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Hi all!! Check out this website from Cambridge, MD of an active eagle's nest. One egg was laid on Saturday and they're watching for a second egg by tonight!! Enjoy!!!


[http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/camhtm2.html]
Posted by Hank Pennington on January 29, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Wow! That seems early compared to the eagles here. Is it spring yet? Anywhere? Please.......
Posted by David Bostedo on January 29, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Maybe it would be Hank, if we could just somehow make the Earth warmer.... :rolleyes:
Posted by Hank Pennington on January 29, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Sad to say, I'm convinced "help" is on the way with the warming bit. :frown:
Posted by Christine Adams on January 29, 2008 at 8:41 PM
I remember viewing this site last year and thinking that it seemed so early for nesting when in my area they only start hanging around the nest in February. When do they start up your way Hank? As much as I'd like spring to be here now, I'm not in a hurry for the warming trend.

If anyone knows of other wildlife websites with webcams, please post! I'd love to view more.
Posted by Jim DeWitt on January 29, 2008 at 9:13 PM
There were ospreys courting and copulating at Merritt Island today. Approximately 2-3 weeks early, according to the Refuge personnel. I agree with Hank.
Posted by David Bostedo on January 29, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Christine - The only webcams I know of are a few from South Africa. Not quite as up close and personal as the one you posted, but I've seen a few things on them...although I haven't checked them much since right before I took my trip there.

SANParks Cams
AfriCam
Posted by Jeff on January 30, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Not sure if it is normal or not, but along the Mississippi coast most eagles lay their eggs in January. The local news actually had video footage of an adult feeding something in the nest last week. You couldn't see the something, but I would assume it was a chick. BTW, it is definitely not Spring yet. We have had a colder than normal winter here.

Jeff
Posted by Ken Atkinson on January 30, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Here is a grizzly cam from McNeil River. It is off-line now, but I watched a lot of bears fishing there a few months ago.

Now they are showing highlights.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/wildcamgrizzlies/index.html

Ken
Posted by Hank Pennington on January 30, 2008 at 3:52 PM
They typically nest here on Kodiak in May, but in Southeast Alaska I've watched them in April. Those nesting in the cottonwoods on our place in Colorado usually start in late March or early April.
Posted by Steve Foss on January 30, 2008 at 4:51 PM
They start sitting on nests around Ely sometime in March, usually, though unless it's a bitterly cold winter they'll hang around all winter eating roadkill and will sometimes perch near their nests in winter.
Posted by Christine Adams on January 31, 2008 at 8:24 AM
The second egg was laid yesterday!! Who-whooooo!! I was just looking at last years photos and they hatched around the beginning of March. So cool!!! If anyone wants to see last year's hatchings, go to (on same web site) Part III Gallery, pages 23 and 24 for the first one and then beyond.

Also, you can access an Osprey's manmade nest. The ospreys haven't started hanging around yet but you'll see eagles there and last year I remember seeing vultures and ravens and crows there as well before nesting.