Dorothy and E2 have been incubating their eggs since March 25. Except for moments like this when they trade incubation duty, watching the falconcam can be pretty boring so you might want to keep several nestcams open at the same time to keep the action fresh.
Many of you have sent links to the other webcams you’re watching. Here are just a few of the webcams viewing active nests right now. Some are in different time zones so you’ll get to watch the sun rise and set across the continent.
- Peregrines — only a few of the many, many nestcams
- University of Pittsburgh (of course!)
- Wilmington, Delaware
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: DEP Rachel Carson Building
- Rochester, New York (5 cameras on the nest)
- Ohio: Cleveland: Terminal Tower and Columbus: Rhodes State Office Tower
- University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
- Nebraska: State Capitol in Lincoln, Woodmen Tower in Omaha
- San Francisco, California via SCPBRG (uses Quicktime)
- Canada: Selection of cameras via the Canadian Peregrine Foundation (The text may say 2011 but these are 2012 nests!)
- Bald Eagles
- Red-tailed Hawks
- Other Species
- Great Blue Heron, Cornell University, All About Birds
- Osprey, Dunedin, Florida
- Great Horned Owls via Xcel Energy (includes additional webcams links)
This is just the tip of the iceberg! There are more webcams than I can ever list and new ones announced every day as nesting season begins for more species.
Do you have a favorite webcam I didn’t list here? Share it by posting a comment with the link.
(photo from the National Aviary falconcam at the University of Pittsburgh)
Up close and beautiful. They have been identified as Michelle and Travis. I think you will enjoy this view.
http://www.ustream.tv/greatspiritblufffalcons
enjoy
GK
Here is an eagle cam at Norfolk Botanical Garden in Virginia. Usually eggs would have hatched by now. Last year the female eagle was killed by an airplane. There have been a few females visiting the nest. The history of the nest and a link to the cam can be found on the following link:
http://www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/e-community/eagle-cam
I forgot to add that I haven’t seen any eggs yet but there are some stunning pics in the slide show.
Here is a link I watch often from the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge near Cambridge, MD on the DelMarVa peninsula.
http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/camhtm.html
There is an eagle cam and an Osprey Cam. I like the osprey especially because they always bring fish to the nest and it is easy to see the food. As for the eagle this year, the chicks were killed, probably by a competing eagle, and there is no longer a “family” there. The galleries if both show recent activity. Eagles may still lay a new clutch but that is becoming less likely as time goes on.
http://www.farmyou.com/falcon_cams/index.html
This website has several variations of some webcams. I love watching the eaglets right now. Happy viewing. 🙂
My 2nd love after peregrines are ospreys. Here’s 2 high def cams that are awesome:
Longmont, Colorado
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/colorado/longmont/
Ferris State U, Big Rapids, Michigan
http://osprey.ferris.edu/
Here’s one of a goose… it’s just so darn cute… the goose chose a potted plant container on someone’s deck! Apparently in prior years the goose chose a lawn chair but tore it to shreds so the owner threw it away… but that did not deter the goose!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/eyeson-goose2012
Another peregrine falcon cam… from Nottingham Trent University, England… very clear close up camera!
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/ecoweb/biodiversity/falcons/index.html#
Here’s a saker falcon nest in Hungary:
http://sakerlife2.mme.hu/en/content/webcam-1
the webcam in SF shows the baby chicks-they hatched yesterday & today. I just watched DAD feeding the chicks. The webcam is real close so you get a really good look at the chicks & feeding time but you may have to download the webcam so you can view it.