Thought someone might enjoy watching this' Southwest Florida Eagle Cam ' currently two eaglets,one hatched Christmas day the other the day after,three cameras,one right at nest so you can watch as they're fed and as they Ozzie & Harriet(the pair of Bald Eagles) take care of them,I only wish I would have this when I was the care giver
Thanks for posting this, ol don. Time is heavy on my hands as I recuperate — slowly — from a stinky virus. It's wonderful to have this look into their world. I was surprised at how much care Ozzie gives his family, and Harriet does her share of fishing, too. How did you and the dawg manage over the holiday season? Wishing you the best for 2015.
.......Wow.....It's so amazing and interesting to see what technology can do for us. But I feel sorry for the poor eagles. They don't have any privacy at all. ......In case someone else is like me and are having trouble finding this. All you have to do is type "Southwest Florida Eagle Cam " in the google search box. ......................................................................................GeorgieBoy
I watched a program on Bald Eagles a while back. there were cameras on a couple nest to film them as they returned south - I think it was along the Mississippi - totally fascinating. They also showed some up in Alaska. It was from that I learned how long it took for their head feathers to turn white.
75 of course the dawg had a Merry Christmas,mine was spent ensuring her every wish was fulfilled,I may try to trade her for a cat,thaks for asking and hope your holiday's were great also,by the way with wind chills 15-20 below I'm busy reading again,just started Dickens of the Mounted...what a writer
Thanks so much for the heads up on this site. I watched last night and today and found it really fascinating. Thanks again. Glad to hear you had a good holiday.
Good to hear ol don* that your "dawg" is doing well. You are responsible for both halves now so you must expect to put in a bit more effort! Like mary75*, I well remember the time when it was half each. (edited to add Marys *)
Well, ol don*, you certainly got me hooked on watching the eagles. I was saddened when E6 died recently. Ozzie took away the body after a day or two, and Wild Life recovered it. They are running tests to determine what happened. Someone asked me somewhere, and I can't remember what thread it was on, if I had recovered from the gastrointestinal virus that laid me low at the beginning of January. Not entirely. It's been very slow, and I'm still on a pureed diet. On a brighter note, I'm back at my university classes and enjoying them immensely.
Thanks, Charlotte, for the encouraging words. Three weeks seems like a long time to me. The doctor said it left the GI tract inflamed. Has that been the pattern for your 'flu cases in Washington? I find looking in on the eagle family mesmerizing, and I check in on them a couple of times a day. I'm amazed at how the two share the work load, from sitting on the eggs to food gathering. Harriet has good instincts on how to manage the household and Ozzie.
LOL I wondered where ya been 75,good to hear your improving,sorry to hear you've been under the weather,yes its very clear that Harriet rules the roost,funny to watch her put Ozzie in his place,I lived about 2 miles away from the nest and drove by it frequently when going fishing,however they didn't have the cams up then
No still live in Michigan,but we did live in Ft Myers for 5-6 years just before wife was diagnosed,we came back home in 2006 built new home and before we moved it she was diagnosed,never got to enjoy her home
I read the sentence too quickly,"I lived about 2 miles away from the nest." Now I have you back on your beautiful green lawn in Michigan, I want to know what kind of fish you caught in Florida. Ozzie is a great fisher, and some of them seem a fair size They would be sockeye salmon here in B.C. Did you notice that he also brought in a goat's 's head and a duck? No wonder E6 is thriving.
Oh boy,fish you say,hmmm snapper,snook,drum,catfish,trout when fishing in the river(same area H&O fish)ya never knew what you'd catch there but we also fished Lake Okeechobee for panfish,bluegills and crappies,not the same anymore without my fishing partner,however the giant black dawg now owned wholly by me keeps me busy enough,I don't think I have time to wet a line.
Just stopping by for a minute to say I've been watching the Eagle Cam once or twice a day for several days now. I have not seen Ozzie yet, but see a lot of the little eaglet (Named E-6, I think) and Harriet, the mom eagle. This morning they are eating a small rabbit, and the little bird is up on his feet walking around, and stretching his wings, or at least one wing. It is one of my goals to see an eagle in the wild, and so far I have never been lucky enough to see one. So thanks for the heads up about the Eagle Cam.
It was so funny when E6 went to try to eat the fish and it started flopping around. Elizabeth, I hope you see one in the wild. They are so beautiful to see and when they fly are magnificent.
Yes, I look and look when I'm in the mid-Hudson valley (NY) or going through the Pennsylvania Wilds--both places where eagles are seen…but not by me. : ( So I'll enjoy the Florida birds on the web cam.
When you least expect it you will see one. One problem is it takes about 5 years for their neck feathers to turn white. You may see a juvenile and not know it.
The couple of times I have looked in on the nest have been at night and lately O and H aren't there. Are they sitting up in the tree above the nest? I didn't think that eagles are night hunters (you know, the "eagle eye") so I wonder where they are.
Marche, in the chat notes they have mentioned that O and H are often in the tree above the nest. I wonder if E6 is getting so big and exercising so often that he has to have more room with them gone, even though the nest is supposed to be 6 feet deep and 6 feet deep. There was also mention that H is giving E6 more time alone to help him learn independence. I could have taken a few parenting lessons from H.
I've been checking the Eagle Cam now and then. Today for the first time I saw all three on the nest at the same time--Ozzie, Harriet, and E-6. It made my day.
When it was raining the other day Harriet was in the nest so E6 could snuggle under her an try to stay dry,he's so big the only thing that was protected was his head,yesterday Ozzie brought a little fish and 6 took it away from Harriet and tried to swallow it whole,she didn't try to take it back,just let him learn on his own that he's not a pelican,only 36 this am when I checked,thats chilly for Ft Myers
There is a good eagle cam in Georgia at a college. Look for eagle cam berry.edu or something like that. The mother eagle had been sitting on two eggs, and one hatched yesterday…a little gray ball of fluff…the other egg has still not hatched, but was laid a few days later than the first.
so fun to watch them. My daughter use to hatch her finch eggs by putting them in her bra. They grow fast so different to see a bird that takes so long.
Every morning I go online to check out Ozzie and Harriet and their big eaglet in Florida, and now I'm also glancing at www.berry.edu/eaglecam in Georgia to see their birds. The mother eagle sitting on her nest with the one egg and the tiny little chick reminds me of a chicken sitting on her chicken nest. So cute..I hope all the young ones survive--I know the odds are very much against them…but still..enough are surviving to where eagles aren't an endangered species anymore. It was interesting to watch last night while the mom eagle in Georgia dug down very deep in her nest to keep the egg and the chick way down deep…for warmth and protection, I suppose.
Charlotte, I'm wondering why the mom finch didn't hatch her own eggs?
If they were in the wild might have. Also, the male and female were in the same cage. The male would crack them open. I think she only managed to get one to hatch. The others got smashed usually at night. lol
Hi, ol Don, the Berry College cam was fine this morning--I went on the site and saw the dad and mom eagles on the nest, but one of them was on top of the chicks, so couldn't see the babies. Tonight I went on and it did look like maybe the cam was freezing up. If you scroll down to where the students have a blog going, you'll see a nice still picture of the mom feeding the two chicks. I will say that when she is sitting on those chicks, she doesn't move much.
The Florida cam is a lot of fun. I like to look at the split screen, just in case one of the big birds is sitting outside the nest on a branch. E-6 is really getting big, and starting to look like he's getting interested in flying the coop. I hope he doesn't try to hop out before he can fly. Interesting to see him feeding himself, too.(or reaching out to grab food from his parents--little baddie!)