Cool video. I can't believe how calm that bird was being!   

Yes.."SHE" was being a good girl...that Noah.....lol

Boo-hoo! Nothing happens when I click the link... I will keep trying - the site opens ok, but there is nothing to see!! Sounds like it is splendid...

http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/creativeapps/slideShow/Main.jsp?albumId=770294011905&ownerId=33528561305  Bobbie, try this link

Just wanted to share an album that I put together this morning. These are pictures that I took in the last week.

http://tinyurl.com/y7g86ru

Lou

A great album, Lou!  Thanks for sharing your talents and good humor!

Gayle

me too...was fun! 

OMG...just like DeMortel......so the mom was killed or driven off? That's it....I can't go through this again. No way. Thanks Carla. So very very sad.

Sharon Osbourne... still grinning.

Bobbie Ireland... still voting!!

G'luck!!

and Cyndi Lauper...lol...I voted

and Archer is still on the eggs...Beauty must be having a grand ole time.

They are still alone and it looks like the 4th egg is hatching....Any news? Carla?

http://www.wcnc.com/video/featured-videos/RAW-VIDEO--Eaglet-Noah-gets-tracking-device-91283529.html  Noah gets a transmitter. He has grown!

Beauty checks in on Archer then leaves 8:54

(movie)  Archer in the distance getting ready for his time on eggs

[Man forced to cycle on to ferry]

Man forced to cycle on to ferry

That's just crazy Bobbie...no foot tickets but have bike tickets?       Thanks

BOISE --  A pair of peregrine falcons produced its first egg of the 2010 season today in a nest box in downtown Boise. Peregrine falcons typically lay three or four eggs. Biologists say If all goes well, chicks will hatch in about a month.

Peregrines have used the nest box on the 14th floor of the One Capital Center Building at 10th and Main streets to rear their offspring since 2003. The box is on a ledge that simulates the high-steep cliffs the falcons use in the wild.

Last year, a falcon pair produced four eggs at this site. Three eggs hatched and all the chicks fledged successfully. One died about a week later after being electrocuted on a power pole.

You can watch the new falcon family via a live streaming web camera. The project is a cooperative effort by The Peregrine Fund and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, with camera and web hosting supplied by Fiberpipe.

http://www.peregrinefund.org/falconcam/

LOUISVILLE, Ky. --
Biologists from the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife are watching a pair of nesting bald eagles along the Ohio River.

It's the first documented eagle's nest in Jefferson County, but biologists are concerned this weekend's air show could affect the nesting process.

The area where the birds are nesting is inaccessible, but on Friday a biologist from the Department of Fish and Wildlife monitored the birds from across the river during the practice air show.

Avian biologist Kate Heyden used a spotting scope to monitor a pair of bald eagles nesting on Shippingport Island.

"How often the birds sit on the nest or come back to the nest or feed their chicks. We try to determine if they're on eggs or have chicks," Heyden said.

This weekend, Heyden is also trying to see if or how the air show might affect the nesting process.

"I think with Thunder Over Louisville our biggest concern was the planes because it happens during the day and so it is the noise and just having something fly over you might be disturbing it would seem like a predator or something like that," Heyden said.

WLKY News was unable to spot the nest with a camera lens, but Heyden said the pilots are going to avoid overflight of the island and avoid low flights.

"At this time of year the birds are either incubating eggs or they have young chicks and so we wouldn't want to do anything that would cause the birds to leave the nest more than they normally would because that would make the nest more susceptible to predators or to failing," Heyden said.

As for the fireworks show, Heyden said that's not as much of a concern as the planes because the fireworks noise is similar to that of a thunderstorm.

"The birds don't usually leave the nest at night, so they might see it as a bad storm and hunker down like they would during a storm," Heyden said.

Despite the efforts to reduce the level of disturbance from the air show, Heyden said there's still a chance the eagles would not produce.

"This is a good learning experience for us as we have more nests pop up in the urban areas. We want to know how these types of events will effect the nests so we can make future recommendations on how to not disturb others," Heyden said.

Heyden said the bald eagles are doing fine despite Friday's practice.

She'll be back out there on Sunday to monitor the birds after the show.

The millions glued to computers watching nature porn would agree that the allure is ‘real wildlife



“You feel like you get to know them,� Karen Bills of the Hancock Wildlife Federation says of the webcast eagles. “This is nature’s reality show.�

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in March, 198 people watched a bald eagle sitting motionless in its nest. The viewers weren't outside though; likely they were equally still, sitting by themselves as three video cameras fed the inner lives of the eagle from British Columbia on to computer screens around the world.

The first shots of the Hornby Island nest came in 2006. Since then, 15 million people have watched these birds do, well, bird things. Television executives would kill for viewership like that.

The Hancock Wildlife Foundation website (hancockwildlife.org) broadcasts a live feed from the B.C. nests and has added other wildlife cams of bears and salmon.

People have watched eggs hatch and seen eaglets die. When the original Hornby Island nest cam got wiped out by a storm, biologist David Hancock stepped up to keep the feed running for existing viewers. A webcam was installed in a nest in Sidney, just north of Victoria. It soon had hits from around the world. "We had no idea," Hancock says. After getting enough bandwidth to handle the traffic and the cost to stream the video - remember this is pre-YouTube - Hancock became the founder of what is the most-watched website in the world.

The 2010 season is well underway and eyes from 43 countries are back on three pairs of eagles in Sidney on Vancouver Island and Delta, near Vancouver.

At the eagle nests, people watch as the birds renovate after they return in the fall from gorging on salmon. By January, they are sitting on eggs, with the male and female taking turns incubating and rolling them. Once they hatch, around the middle of April, the action increases as the adults are run ragged providing enough food to keep the growing chicks full of fish and roadkill.

The finale, of course, is when the season's young fly for the first time. People have travelled from England and Maine to stand under the nest to catch the first flight.

As an author, filmmaker and photographer, Hancock has spent 50 years interpreting the natural world in his books and films, but says he's never seen anything like the eagle-cam phenomenon. "What the hell are 343 people doing watching bald eagles from Australia?" he asks, laughing. Hancock doesn't call it nature porn, but the term has been used to describe the intimate nature of the footage coming out of the nests - and the addictive behaviour it creates in some of the nest-cam regulars.

Self-described eagleholics log in with nicknames such as Tweet Dreams and HikerBikerGram. Some are scientists and some are insomniacs. Many get hooked. "There are people that that's all they do," says Terry Baker, from Coquitlam, B.C. She's known on the forums as terrytvgal. Her signature says, "I came for the eagles, and stayed for the friends I made." She watches daily from about 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. or later, much later. She thought she might have a problem when she found herself turning down dinner invitations because she didn't want to miss anything on the nest. "I just really got captivated," she says.

It's not just for her viewing pleasure that she's so dedicated. Because the audience is global, people in different time zones monitor the video streams in shifts and post updates on discussion forums. When people wake up in different parts of the world, they can catch up on what they've missed.

Hancock thinks the eagle cams reach an audience jaded by the highly produced footage typical of nature programming. "We always know it's canned and edited," he says. The nest footage, transmitted 24/7 from a grainy webcam being blown about in the wind is the antithesis of Discovery Channel fodder. "It's the real wildlife," he says.

"It may be that the bloody animal will sleep for four hours," Hancock says. Those moments of sheer boredom add to the connection the viewers have with the birds. Like human life, it's rarely glamourous. Most of the time, it's just sitting on a couple of eggs. But Hancock says he's learned more from watching the nest cams than he did over 40 years standing on the ground looking up at nests.

Foundation co-ordinator Karen Bills lurked on the nest cam site when she first discovered it in 2006. She would read forum comments and watch the eagles, but didn't post her own thoughts.

Now, she's as immersed in the eagle cams as anyone. She volunteers full-time with the Hancock Wildlife Federation. "You feel like you get to know them," Bills explains. "This is nature's reality show."

Unlike carefully scripted reality TV, here, viewers never know what's going to happen.

Last May, people watched in horror as a female eagle killed her chick. The bizarre accident involved an entanglement of the eaglet in the mother's tail feathers. As she tried to detach herself, the chick was inadvertently pushed over the rim of the nest and fell to its death.

Brian Starzomski, a community ecologist at the University of Victoria, admits he's no expert on wildlife voyeurism, but he can't see any harm in the nest cams. "It's certainly nice when people are engaged with nature," he says.

He points out that viewing wildlife on computers opens doors for people who couldn't, or wouldn't, otherwise access a nest site. Having millions of viewers online also means less traffic into sensitive areas and disruption of the nesting birds.

As for the rampant anthropomorphism on the discussion forums - viewers call the adults ma and pa and make all kinds of comparisons to human couples - Starzomski doesn't see any harm in it.

While researchers must take care to remain as objective as possible when working with animals, Starzomski doesn't think it's a big issue with the public. "It probably indicates more of a love of the organism or animals," he says. There's no better way to engage people than on the basis of love, he adds, and that can only make conservation efforts easier.

Besides, what man can't relate as he watches the male eagle carefully place a stick in the nest, only to have the female take it out and poke it into what is obviously a better place?

Iceland Review’s reporters, editor Bjarni Brynjólfsson and photographer Páll Stefánsson, are now on location of the eruption at Skógar. Since the road is closed at Markarfljót they had to take the very long route, flying to Egilstadir in eastern Iceland last night, rent a car and drive nonstop to Kirkjubæjarklaustur, where they arrived at five o’clock in the morning. They then drove into the wall of ash on their trail towards the Eyjafjallajökull area.

Visibility in the ash was zero at points and they had to stop until wind picked up and the ash had blown away. One of the most terrible consequences of an eruption like this is the effect on animals. Most domestic animals are still in house, but the birds have no shelter. They fly into the dark cloud, flap their wings like they have lost their bearings and then fall down and die. Our reporters saw a flock of geese fly straight into the deadly ash. Farmers have told of the desparate sound coming from the birds battling death. This is the season when birds are migrating back to Iceland.

All inhabitants have been evacuated so nobody is in this area except our reporters and the police. A policeman had to walk in front of the car when it was going through the darkest smoke.

The accompanying photos were taken this afternoon in the Skógar area. Black smoke and ash are being thrown out of the crater at high speed.

The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority released an announcement this morning, asking that all horse owners who keep their herds outside be on the alert due to ash fall. Where there is significant ash fall all horses must be sheltered indoors.
According to the weather forecast, there is most risk for ash fall in Rangárvallasýsla county in the coming days but all horse owners in south and southeast Iceland must be prepared to protect their horses.

It is dangerous for horses to breathe in the ash, drink polluted water and eat polluted fodder. Therefore all horses must be sheltered inside if they cannot be relocated to a safer area.

However, transport of mares in foal should be avoided, especially if they are due to foal within a month.

If they cannot be kept inside stables, they must be kept near buildings where they can be given clean water to drink and the fodder can be protected from the ash.

It is most important to protect one-year old foals that are growing from fluorine poisoning because they are at most risk for permanent damage to their teeth and bones.

Mares in foal are at risk of calcium deficiency in the blood which is a life-threatening condition.

This is so sad. We went through this with DeMortel and what a horrible few weeks it was. I'll never forget it. The intruder won..S2. It happens, we cry, we mourn but in the end, after all the name calling and our minds clear, we welcome her. It's human nature to feel this way  but it's also nature why this happens. I just don't like it during hatching.  Hope all goes well at this nest.

  Poor babies