1. I tried to post the following thought (#2) in "Rochester Falcon Offspring" but did not find the usual "Start New Topic" button on the top right. Is that section closed for some reason? It was posted in quite recently.

I don't know what happened to the READ THIS FIRST! topic on that board. If it were still there, it would explain that the board is for news and announcements only. Members can reply to topics but can't start them.

I wonder if anyone at the Quest school that named Quest would be interested in knowing that she is in Toronto.

Since it appears in the Shout box, it's a Shout error. Something in your browser could be blocking AJAX requests.  Quitting and restarting the browser or trying another browser will probably fix it.

Camera 2 is a lot sharper than it was last year. See the picture attached to Donna's post from March 2010. (her 2000th post, btw)

http://rfalconcam.com/forum/index.php?topic=1096.msg9229#msg9229

NOTE: Can one of the mods please put all the woodmen posts in 1 category please! Thanks

I merged all Woodman topics into one.

(movie) Archer seems to be looking at cam 2 also.

(movie) He was mostly looking at the door.

even the still cam views, are not as clear as they were.  It seems to have worsened in the past few weeks. I  think the pics were clearer this winter -- both at home and at work.  I thought it was my eyes!    The pics  (or maybe it my eyes) are lacking the sharpness they previously had.  

I find that hard to believe. Please post some examples.

Main Camera video is not as sharp as the other cameras because it's from the camera's viewfinder.

However, to say it's not as "clear" as last year is a mistake because we didn't have video from Main camera last year.

The 2nd stream displays 4 cameras simultaneously. Each camera has only a quarter of the window so it naturally doesn't contain as much detail as it would if it occupied the whole thing.

The only way to get sharper images from the 4 cameras is have 1 camera per stream. We have 5 cameras and 2 streams. Increasing the number of streams is impractical. We already broadcast more streams than most wildlife webcams. Decreasing the number of cameras could result in missing an important viewing angle. Sequentially switching cameras periodically is not an option because it was disliked by so many viewers last year. ("The cameras are switching too quickly." "The cameras are switching too slowly.")

"From: pharaoh@egypt.gov - Sent from my iPhone" 

Main Camera video worked until 2:15 AM when it went dark again.

I'm mot sure what the error was. I wouldn't worry about it if you can still post.

Kathy O (downtown) reported immediately to Dana and I (at KP) when Archer left downtown.  We clocked him at approximately 3 mins for the approx 5 mile trip!  Yikes!  Well, they are the fastest creature on the earth afterall!  Very impressive!   

According to google maps, the straight line distance from Times Square to the KP power plant is 4.02 miles. He's still fast, but not quite as fast as we first thought. (80 mph vs. 100)

10:33-10:48 definitely looks more promising.

Welcome, Tracy!

I think I have Camera 2 working properly now. Still working on Main's night vision camera.