Decorah Eagles

[Norse]

They're back, and mom and dad again have 3 eggs: http://www.decoraheaglecamalerts.com/. Here is a tribute video for last year’s brood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBwJRAHVgkQ&feature=related. If you visit the raptor center site, you can also follow the travels of one of the eaglets, named D1 (she was the 2nd egg to hatch), from last year as they put a transmitter on her.

[PamNY]

I love watching Decorah. In other eagle cam news, there will also be a cam back on the Hornby eagles soon. It's not in the nest tree, so will lack a closeup view but should give a nice view of area around the nest.

There's also the NYU hawk nest in NYC:

http://www.livestream.com/nytnestcam

[Norse]

It is Iowa! I started my undergrad at Luther College in Decorah.

[Norse]

I must have missed the clocks back in my crazy college days, but I did take in the Vesterheim (Norwegian-American museum) a few times http://vesterheim.org/index.php. I don't think I've been back to Decorah since (dating myself now) sometime in the late 80's. I should really take a bike trip down to So. MN/No. IA sometime - lots of neat trails along meandering rivers.

[Atlas]

Cool. I'm from up around Decorah and it's arguably my favorite place on the planet. It's nice to see it in the news a bit for something nice like this. I just went to the Bily Clocks Museum for the first time this last fall. I can't believe I have driven by it so many times but it took a bike tour for me to slow down and go see it. It was very quirky and interesting.

[zoom-zoom]

It is Iowa! I started my undergrad at Luther College in Decorah.

I sang in the big choir at Luther for the Dorian Festival when I was in HS...I think I was 16 or 17. :)

[Norse]

Just an update on the eagles - hatching is expected any time now through the weekend.

[Deborajen]

My husband grew up in Calmar and my mother-in-law still lives there. Decorah has a nice bike path. We rode on it a year ago. I've heard they're putting in a bridge on a new section up on the bluff. There's also a nice path that goes from Calmar to Cresco - all paved. Then there's the Root River Trail not too far north in Minnesota.--

And love watching the eagle cam, too! We watched it last year and are watching it again.

[Norse]

It is indeed a small, small world. :)

Eagle update: first pip, yeah! It was noticed just this afternoon. :D

[Norse]

Baby's coming out! First baby's coming out! http://www.decoraheaglecamalerts.com/. I just saw it moments ago!! And here's youtube from a little earlier today showing egg w/cracks encircling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f82f2NZvgyM&feature=youtu.be.

How can I work at a time like this? :D

[Norse]

The Raptor center confirmed that this was indeed the first hatch, about an hour ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIPa5M7-8uM&feature=youtu.be.

[badger]

much to my surprise, I saw a flopping fish on the nest, and next thing I knew, mom got up and voila, two babies!! it was exciting to see them!

[Norse]

The third eaglet hatched Friday so all three little fluffballs are out now. The first-hatched eaglet, called D12, is a real little stinker - always trying to get out from under mom.

[PamNY]

Not at eagle, but the hawk nest at New York University has a pip:

http://www.livestream.com/nytnestcam

[Norse]

The Decorah Eagles are famous. Here’s an article in Forbes (intro gets a few things wrong but otherwise good interviews): http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2012/04/17/the-worlds-most-popular-live-streaming-video-200-million-eagles-fans-cant-be-wrong/.

[Brandi]

So I am looking at the cam right now and wondering if they leave the light on all night and if that bugs the birds at all?

[Norse]

So I am looking at the cam right now and wondering if they leave the light on all night and if that bugs the birds at all?

Take a look at the Forbes interview - that IR "light" is not visible to the eagles. They don't notice a thing. :)

[Norse]

Pretty neat behind the scenes video and report from one of our local sportscasters, who is just as hooked as I am: http://www.kare11.com/news/article/975118/391/Behind-the-scenes-of-the-Decorah-Eagle-Cam.

[PamNY]

Not eagles, but an interesting situation with a red tail hawk nest that has a cam in Philadelphia. (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-franklin-institute-haw-cam)

The male hawk was killed by a car recently, and supplemental food is being provided to help the female care for her family. To everyone's surprise, another hawk, presumably male, has turned up and is even assisting (a little) with feeding the young.

We had a similar situation in NYC which I watched very closely last year, and the female tolerated NO hawk visitors until long after her kids were grown and on their own.

A very good blogger (http://sunnydixie.blogspot.com/) covers the Philadelphia nest.

By the way, the consultant for this cam is a falconer and he insists everyone use falconry terms (tiercel for male, haggard for adult, and formel, a word he dug up from Chaucer, for female).

Several NYC bloggers have picked up his terminology, which I question, because I don't think those terms are use in ornithology very often.

[Breella]

I now have SIX nests that I watch regularly thanks to this post. BTW these bluebirds started hatching today.

http://www.livestream.com/glenhambluebirds?utm_source=website-channel-page&utm_medium=related

[Norse]

I now have SIX nests that I watch regularly thanks to this post. BTW these bluebirds started hatching today.

http://www.livestream.com/glenhambluebirds?utm_source=website-channel-page&utm_medium=related

Addicting, isn't it? I most recently added this nest to my watching and worrying and smiling: http://www.mnbound.com/live-eagle-cam/. Little Harmon, as the eaglet is called, became famous this past week when his wing somehow got trapped in the nesting materials and the local raptor center did a rescue: they used a crane to bring him down, tended to him for a short time at the center, put him back in the nest and then everyone waited anxiously for his parents to return, which they finally did a little over 24 hours later: http://theraptorcenternews.blogspot.com/. Harmon did have a sibling who was lost on April 30 when he/she fell out of the nest. :( But Harmon has been absolutely spoiled and stuffed with food by both parents since being reunited. :)

Pam, those young hawks look adorable! That's interesting if the mom is already willing to tolerate a new "helpmate."

[PamNY]

I love the bluebird cam! Yes, cams are addicting. Little Harmon's story was compelling indeed.

Here's a list of bird cams throughout the world:

http://viewbirds.com/

[Norse]

Here's a list of bird cams throughout the world:

http://viewbirds.com/

Oh no!!! :eek: :D

[snapdragen]

The SJ Cityhall falcon chicks (http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_20593380/san-jose-city-hall-falcons-given-names?source=rss)have been named, 1 female, 3 males.

Hope
Horácio
Thunder
Cobalt

They are starting to get their big bird feathers.

http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/nestcamSJ.htm

[badger]

it all started with Phoebe for me (such a heartbreaking end to her season this year). there was Hornby, then Decorah, then Minnesota (I'm currently mad at the parents there, I think they're quite negligent, nowhere near as attentive as Decorah), and now the Red Tailed Hawk at Cornell.

I'll have to save the list of all the bird cams because come summer my co-worker and I will be bored without any birds to watch!

[Norse]

I started with Phoebe and Hornby. Don't be too hard on the MN parents - this is dad's very first year so he is learning on the job. :)

[Norse]

The first hatched eaglet, called D12, started branching this weekend and now does it all the time. Seems to be teasing his two sibs still sitting in the nest thinking about it.

[Norse]

:( Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The morning after they shut off the Decorah cam, the first-hatched eagle, D12, was found dead, electrocuted at the bottom of a power pole not far from the nest. http://www.kwwl.com/story/18947503/volunteers-react-to-decorah-eagle-d12s-death.

Although this is tragic, if there’s any good to come out of this, it’s that D12’s death will save many other raptors and feathered friends from the same fate Many poles have already been fixed as a result. There is also this online petition to make Avian Protection Plans (http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/CurrentBirdIssues/Hazards/APP/AVIAN%20PROTECTION%20PLAN%20FINAL%204%2019%2005.pdf) mandatory for utility companies (right now, they are just “guidelines”):
http://www.change.org/petitions/us-fish-and-wildlife-service-avian-power-line-interaction-committee-make-the-avian-protection-plan-mandatory. I hope everyone will consider signing it and passing it on to others. Thanks.