Live Stream Of Bald Eagle

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This is the first link http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/ but this link allows you to go full screen.. http://www.infotecbsi.com/index.asp?op=company.videoUpdate
takes you to a streaming video of a Bald Eagle on it's nest resting on a clutch of eggs. It doesn't indicate male or female since both have the white plumage and both share the duties of egg-warming and parenting but at this point it doesn't matter.
Some folks might find watching the bird totally fascinating as it does give you a good close view of the bird and some folks might find it boring after a few minutes. As mostly (when I was watching it) it was just sitting there.
Keep in mind that an eagle in of itself is not a small bird average (body) length is 34 to 43 inches and it's wing span is somewhere between 6 to 7 1/2 feet.
This site http://www.learner.org/jnorth/spring1998/jnexpert/EagleAnswer.html
provides some basic answers of the bird itself. Likewise here http://dep.state.ct.us/burnatr/wildlife/factshts/bldeagle.htm

I think we, as Martialist who in awareness of the inner (and outer) power we've obtained through our various art(s) that when in retrospect to the awesome power of nature herself we can appreciate this momentary view of one of Nature's magnificent creations of grace and beauty and power at rest.
For those of us on this board who are Americans we can appreciate the visual impact of our nation's living symbol at rest and protecting it's home.

God Bless.

 

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That's a cool link, Caver. Any idea when we can expect to see the eaglets popping out of their shells?
 

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Very neat. Thank you.

Years ago, Springfield Massachusetts had a nesting pair of Peragrin Falcons on the local skyscraper. The cable television company started broadcasting the nest. After a couple of months, when they tried to take back the channel, there was an outcry from the community.

24 hours a day - 7 days a week, we had a falcon nest on the tube.

Eventually, and sadly, the male falcon crashed into a glass structure on the roof of a building and died. I think they took the camera down shortly after that.

Still watching the eagle.
 
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theletch1 said:
That's a cool link, Caver. Any idea when we can expect to see the eaglets popping out of their shells?
No, but somewhere on the site it has that info... or at least they'll probably announce their expectant dates.
 

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VERY cool link. Bald eagles are magnificent creatures. I've had the pleasure of seeing them in the wild during my trip to Seattle a couple years ago. I was on a whale-watching trip; didn't see any whales (we were tracking a pod of orcas), but saw plenty of eagles flying around and feeding near the water.

There was a live feed of a peregrine falcon nest on one of Philadelphia's skyscrapers a few years ago. I don't know if we still have nesting falcons in Philly; I haven't heard anything in the news about the raptors for some time now.
 

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Bald eagles have an incubation period of around 35 days, and the eggs usually hatch asynchronously. Depending on the number of eggs in the clutch, the youngest often dies.

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