Bald Eagle Nest Web Cam with Chicks

[GilpinGuy]

This is pretty cool. For the first time in several decades, a pair of bald eagles have nested in Washington DC. Over the last few days they hatched 1 chick with one more ready to hatch.

Live web cam:
http://dceaglecam.eagles.org/

[Great-Kazoo]

One of the few positive things to come out of the beltway

[GilpinGuy]

Mamma is feeding the chicks right now. Cool!

[Martinjmpr]

Thanks for posting the link. I googled "Bald Chicks Web Cam" and came up with something different. :D

[Hummer]

It is fun to watch. The second eagle chick has hatched and both can be seen when the adult stands to reposition. Wait for the online discussion fun when the eagles bring whole rabbits, ducks and feral cats back to the nest. [BooHoo]


We're considering a nest cam for the American Kestrels nesting in our yard. Kestrels are the smallest North American falcon. We'd call it the Kestrel Cam. They began mating last week, copulating several times a day. This will be their third year in a Barn Owl box in the yard. Previously, they nested two years in a box mounted to our house. Here are the chicks from the first brood last year.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g292/COHummer/Birds/Kestrel-chicks5-3-2015_zpsrmythg6p.jpg (http://s59.photobucket.com/user/COHummer/media/Birds/Kestrel-chicks5-3-2015_zpsrmythg6p.jpg.html)

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g292/COHummer/Birds/Kestrel-male-hovering.jpg (http://s59.photobucket.com/user/COHummer/media/Birds/Kestrel-male-hovering.jpg.html)

[Dave]

It is fun to watch. The second eagle chick has hatched and both can be seen when the adult stands to reposition. Wait for the online discussion fun when the eagles bring whole rabbits, ducks and feral cats back to the nest. [BooHoo]



So we should probably get some aerial sharpshooters in helicopters to take them out because these predators are killing animals hunters want to kill for themselves which costs the states money in hunting licenses, and there's a probability of them killing someone's pets or animals they are raising for food.

[GilpinGuy]

Hummer - interesting stuff! Let us know when the csm is up!

[th3w01f]

My wife pulled this up the other day and they had a live fish in the nest, it was pretty cool.

[Hummer]

So we should probably get some aerial sharpshooters in helicopters to take them out because these predators are killing animals hunters want to kill for themselves which costs the states money in hunting licenses, and there's a probability of them killing someone's pets or animals they are raising for food.

Ha! I think there's plenty of rabbits and feral cats for both the eagles and human hunters.

Our little falcons will take about 500 small rodents, lizards, snakes and grasshoppers in a nesting season.



Hummer - interesting stuff! Let us know when the csm is up!

Will do. We need to determine whether we can stream the 100 yards from the nest cam to the modem in our house. Our steel roof and siding complicates reception from the verizon broadband. We may need some kind of signal amplifier.

[newracer]

Just landed with a fish.

[vossman]

I like chicks!

[rondog]

It'll be great when Mama brings in a squirming housecat for the chicks to dine on! I can hear the liberals weeping already.

[Guylee]

I pulled it up and they were sleeping. Not sure what I was expecting, seeing as it's 10pm there...

[GilpinGuy]

It'll be great when Mama brings in a squirming housecat for the chicks to dine on! I can hear the liberals weeping already.

I can't wait for a big ass meal to show up. I was reading that the male hangs out and watches the chicks while the female goes out hunting. This is where eagles have it all wrong.

[Ah Pook]

Wait til one of the chicks starts getting ignored and people start crying to help it and then get pissed when it dies. We must fix everything.

I got hooked on one of these a couple of years ago. Interesting to watch them grow.

[jslo]

Thanks for posting the link. I googled "Bald Chicks Web Cam" and came up with something different. :D

Now that there is funny!

[Dave]

It'll be great when Mama brings in a squirming housecat for the chicks to dine on! I can hear the liberals weeping already.
It wasn't this nest, but another nest cam in PA caught one bringing a cat into the nest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/04/29/nest-cam-livestreams-bald-eagle-parents-feeding-a-cat-to-their-eaglets/

[Hummer]

It wasn't this nest, but another nest cam in PA caught one bringing a cat into the nest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/04/29/nest-cam-livestreams-bald-eagle-parents-feeding-a-cat-to-their-eaglets/

The bird's revenge, for sure.

[SamuraiCO]

http://dukefarms.org/eaglecam

You can also have the duke farm eagle cam going from NJ.

[Bailey Guns]

I really enjoy that webcam. There are 2 or 3 bald eagle nests between the house and work. No webcam, of course, but I occasionally get to see one flying around looking for whatever it is eagles look for. They also aren't hesitant to scramble when some other bird gets a little too close to the nest. Saw one of them in an aerial ballet with a crow the other day. When the second eagle took flight the crow didn't seem to like the odds and unassed the area pretty quickly.

[cstone]

Everyone has to eat.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/04/28/hays-bald-eagle-cam-catches-cat-being-fed-to-eaglets/

[Hummer]

Everyone has to eat.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2016/04/28/hays-bald-eagle-cam-catches-cat-being-fed-to-eaglets/

That's the same video clip that Dave posted above. Fwiw, the consensus is that the cat was probably taken as road kill, not predated by the eagle. The cat's head was not bloodied and mangled as it would have been if caught by a raptor. Eagles, hawks and owls usually go for the head first, often decapitating and eating the head before the rest.