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 Sidney New Nest Nesting Season 2010
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Victoria/Sidney Eagle Nest In an old Garry oak tree, this pair has successfully raised young in front of our cameras since 2006. In 2008 they produced THREE eaglets in a new nest about 500 ft. from the original nest. A cam was placed in the new nest for the 2009 season, where the eagles successfully raised TRIPLETS again!! 1st egg laid March March 4, 2010 6:38PM
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Delta OWL Eagle Nest Thanks very much to OWL for allowing us to put cameras in the tree and to Delta Cable for providing cable internet service for this nest! |
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Spawning Salmon Cam |
Chehalis - Harrison Flats
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Chehalis/Harrison River
This area is home to thousands of eagles during the Fall/Winter spawning season of the Pacific Salmon See the Chehalis Topic for stories and map as well as links to the cameras and project
The Eagle Point Project is Progressing The stream from the SE (South East Corner of the Tower) camera should be live early November (sorry, no audio - this camera has no microphone on it) but the view is well worth watching as this camera has the highest power lens of the 3 cameras as well as image stabalization. The other two cameras are presenting technical difficulties in getting their streams into Flash Video format for delivery to the Wild Earth/Zaplive servers. We'll keep you up to date and may release some of the archives from the two missing cameras as soon as we have some time to process them to flash (files are easy - the live streams are not) See the tower installation and the equipment installation stories for more information.
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Rosswood Spirit Bear Cam Thanks to BCspiritbear.com HWF is working with the camera owners to provide additional hardware and expertise - watch for articles and announcements. |
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Haines Alaska This nest presented courtesy of the American Bald Eagle Foundation Camera Offline - Archives Available |
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Sidney New Nest over Sidney Old Nest |
Sidney New and Old Nests Side by Side |
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Delta OWL Overhead over Delta OWL Side View |
Delta OWL Overhead and Side Views Side by Side |
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Chehalis PTZ over Chehalis Fish Cam |
Work in Progress Sneak Peek (Fish cam starts after brief ad.) |
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Sidney New & Delta OWL CU over Sidney Old & Delta OWL WA |
Four Cams on One Page The cams on these pages are slightly smaller than the rest so all four will fit on most monitors. |
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Mini Cams The cams on these pages are just big enough to show that an eagle is visiting, to help keep an eye on the nests during the slow season. |
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About 240,000 people tune in daily to watch five young B. C. eagles living in webcam-equipped nests. Three young birds in a nest in Sidney, just outside Victoria, hatched the second week of April. Two other eagles hatched last week on Hornby Island, just off the east coast of Vancouver Island between Nanaimo and Comox.
Read Rest of story here
http://www.canada.com/News/eagles+show+their+feathers+webcams+nestled+nests/1566827/story.html
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I get many requests for information on how to set up a wildlife camera in or near a nest. Rather than answer them all repeatedly, I've put this article together to put most of the information in one place and give people a head-start with their project without waiting for an answer.
The first thing to understand before you go putting any camera in a wildlife area is that you may need permission of your local authorities. We need this permission before we can go up a tree, and there are times when we are not allowed near it. Your local authorities should be contacted before you do anything.
The second thing is to understand that power and distance from the internet are the major problems. The rest is pretty much off-the-shelf stuff that can include used video cameras and computers if you want to keep the budget down.
The major cost for such a camera when it is out in the wild is getting the internet connection to it, or getting the video signal back to where the encoder is connected to the internet.
So the first thing to do is answer a couple of questions:
1 - how far away is the nearest "high speed" internet connection (ADSL or Cable modem - minimum 500Kbps outbound connection speed) and is this where you are going to put the encoding computer?
2 - how much outbound bandwidth (usually measured in Gigabytes/month) are you allowed? A typical camera feed uses something around 100Gigs/month
3 - how close is power to where you want the camera?
Once you've answered these questions, read on for more information...
2009 brings with it a whole new way to watch Hancock Wildlife
Foundation's eagle nest cameras. Thanks to WildEarth.TV (WE) and the
people behind it, we are now streaming to you using Adobe's flash video
instead of the Windows Media we used in the past.
March 15, 2007 - Replay
The replay times are the best times to really get a feel for what has happened during the day. You can fast-forward, pause, rewind and scan through the archive files for the day.
Sidney
The replay of the Sidney Wide camera is dark for the first 9 hours and 41 minutes - but shows a wonderful sunrise shortly after that point. The Close-up (CU) camera starts its day at about 09:06 into the file. Use the slider bar just under the image area to slide almost half-way through the file.
Today the scuttlebutt is that there is a second egg in the nest. We'll have to wait for David Hancock to review the video and decide if this is a fact. Check out the discussion forum "2007 Sidney Nest Discussion" for today for thoughts and such.
You'll also find that the "Egg Turning Frequency" discussion group has started up again. Lots of old and new friends here.
The audio on the cameras is incredible - lots of background bird noises, although the occasional plane or car going by can be a bit distracting at times.
Now that we have our own Windows Streaming Media server, we've implemented a number of features and likely will implement more.
The one that most people will appreciate is the replay each night (camera time) of the day's video. This article is to let you know how this works and why it can be a bit fragmented at times.
