NationStates Jolt Archive

I don't know if anybody has already posted about this already, but what the Hell:

http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/

The Eagle Cam. Live streaming video with sound, of the goings-on in an Eagle's nest in British Columbia. I've been watching it for the better part of an hour, and it's probably some of the best television programming I've seen in years...

Oh, and yes, there's a bloody annoying commercial that plays before it actually connects you to the Eagle Cam, but frankly - it was worth it.

I just can't figure out what keeps setting her off every so often. What a shriek!

how do they hide that?

oh, and it is interesting. watching people/things who don't know youre watching them.

Shouldn't it be dark in BC by now?

Anyways, I find this animal camera rather interesting too.
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/SmallMammals/

Naked mole rats!

One really cool thing on the island I live is that there's heaps of eagles. NZ doesn't have eagles, so moving here was the first time I'd ever seen one live.
Last Sunday I went for a walk and saw over 40 of them flying about. One swooped down about 30 feet over my head a couple of times to check me out. That was very cool.
There was an eagles nest in a tree near the school last year. Which gave me something to look at during morning assembly.
After the eagles left, for weeks other small birds scavenged the nest, flitting in, grabbing a piece, flitting out again. It took over a month for them to destroy the eagles nest.

Yeah, that's great. It's all pitch black and stuff.

(damn time differences! :p)

Yeah, that's great. It's all pitch black and stuff.

(damn time differences! :p)

An hour ago, it wasn't. The eagle kept cocking his head towards the camera.

I remember for years there were people blaming the Chinese restaurants for a glut of missing cats in the Beacon Hill area (because a couple did get closed many years ago for serving cats). Then a Parks employee got a peek inside an eagle’s nest they saw that it was lined with cat collars…mystery solved.

A great way to see the Eagles close up in BC is to kayak on the coast. They often hang out on small rock sized islands.

I watched one of those for a falcons.

I remember for years there were people blaming the Chinese restaurants for a glut of missing cats in the Beacon Hill area (because a couple did get closed many years ago for serving cats). Then a Parks employee got a peek inside an eagle’s nest they saw that it was lined with cat collars…mystery solved.

ahh, yes. Whenver animals are mysteriously missing, blame the Chinese. Hey, they eat everything anyway.

I remember working in my Dad’s yard (Gulf Islands) and seeing a small bird dart into the trees. I paused to remark to my father that the bird would be safe from pretty much anything but a falcon in there.

A second later a peregrine falcon buzzed right passed us and after the first bird. I only heard the final struggle and after smiling about the irony of my first statement, went back to work. That was the closest I’ve ever come to them.