Member Scott (mmud) has found a nice White Tailed Eagle Cam located in Poland. The nest is in the top of a pine tree and we don't know too much more. The site is entirely in Polish with no translation availble. Still it's a nice cam and there are two young chicks in the nest. Those of you who take a look---ENJOY!!





LINK FOR THE CAM: http://www.lasy.gov.pl/bielik

I did some research and found this information......


White-tailed Eagle is one of the largest birds of prey in the world. It weighs up to 6 kilograms, with a 2.5 metre wingspan.
“During the period 1800-1970, White-tailed Eagles in most of Europe, underwent dramatic declines, and became extinct in many regions of Western, central, and Southern Europe. While Norway, Germany, Poland, and Iceland harboured the largest surviving populations, pockets of reproducing pairs remained in several other countries” – according to Wikipedia.

The White-Tailed Eagle (Polish: Bielik, plural Bieliki) is considered Poland’s national symbol and it is believed that it’s this noble bird that appears on the Coat of Arms of Poland, proudly wearing a crown since the 10th century. It’s worth mentioning that the crown was removed from its head under the rules of the Soviet Union (1945-1989), as there could be only one ‘King’!

The species is under is under strict protection today in Poland..

The online transmission from the Bieliki’s nest is a joint educational project of The Polish State Forests and Eagle Protection Comittee.
The nest is situated on a 120 year old pine, 30 metres above the ground.

In mid March, the female laid two eggs. The first egg hatched on 27-28th April, the other chick appeared on camera on 1st May.

Highlights from this cam in the form of Youtube videos are available at this link.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB45626E3D0802327




For detailed information about the White Tailed Eagle, please check this out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_Eagle

The Polish Coats of Arms featuring the WTE

Scott--that a nice little nest. Unfortunately I don't speak a word of Polish and that site doesn't seem to have an English button. How did you find that one?

Here's Mom settled for the night.

This post was made by Scott(mmud) and posted on another thread on Friday, May 4th.

Nice s'cap from the Bieliki White-tailed Eagle cam Mary.
I was just searching for WTE cams as I knew there should be some coming online around this time of the year and stumbled across that one.
It's too bad there isn't a language selector on that site like there is on the looduskalender pages. It would be nice to be able to read a little about the nest, it's occupants, and the people that installed the camera.

Scott--check it out!! There is an eaglet in the nest! See the little fuzzy bump! It was bobbling around so it must be quite young.

This post was made by Scott (mmud) and posted on another thread on Friday, May 4th

Great job spotting that Mary!
I wish the camera was up a little higher.

I have no idea what time it is in Poland!!

Dad shading the chick



Checking out the chick



Mom on the cam (?) branch

Mom is on the left and Dad on the right--quite a size difference!!



Mom and not one--but TWO chicks!!



Mom, I think, brooding the chicks,