by Doctor Science
Spring is here, and that means it's time to watch birds. The clearest view of any nestcam I know is Cornell's Red-Tailed Hawk cam. Mom "Big Red" and dad "Ezra" have three eggs this year. One got out of the egg yesterday:
despite the fact that this is what the nest looked like Sunday night:
-- yes, there's a hawk there.
I've embedded the hawkcam feed under the cut. Today already when Big Red was off the nest for a few minutes (getting some more nesting material, she's been acting as though the spruce needles were poking her) I saw the hatched chick and got a good look at the second egg, which has a gap big enough so you can see the chick (technically, the eyas) inside, chipping away. The third egg has a few chips out of it, but it takes over 48 hours for an eyas to get itself out -- the parents don't help.
Two years ago, one of my neighbors documented with high quality (with pictures and video) a finch nest on his front door from egg laying all the way through fledging.
http://www.watching-grass-grow.com/house-finch/2010
He also found a hummingbirds nest that he documented here:
http://www.komar.org/faq/travel/hummingbirds/nest/
Posted by: Alan | April 25, 2012 at 07:04 PM
About four years ago some Bewick's wrens raised a family on oour deck. they built their nest on our windchimes. Since then they have used the nest during the winter. A whole bunch of wrens, as many as six, will huddle together in it. They haven't reused the nest for baby making, however.
Posted by: Laura Koerbeer | April 26, 2012 at 11:02 PM
Bald eagles with three eaglets in Decorah Iowa
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
Posted by: joel hanes | April 27, 2012 at 03:00 PM