Raptor Cams!

Check out the Eagle cam and the Perrigrine Falcon cams at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery:

http://www.boonshoftmuseum.org/programs-events/special-events/falcon-cam-stream

Looks like mama is nesting? I've watched the babies hatch and grow and fly away for a few years now.

Eagle cam: must have to wait for the Eagle to fly in or out.

http://www.boonshoftmuseum.org/programs-events/305

omg omg...the Eagle is there!

Two Two TWO EAGLES!!!!!

Hold on. I'm going to shimmy up that tree and wave. Get ready to take a screen shot.

HAHAHAHHAAA!

Yoo getchoo eyes poked out.

GOT IT, glatt.

Now, if I could just figure out how to post pictures to the Cellar. Do I have to buy the photoviewmasterjpegshopgenie 9.0 to do that?

I thought for a second you were going to fall out of the tree!!!!!!






;)

Did the falcon build a nest out of gummy bears?

Skittles, I think.

I just saw baby eagles yapping for food!

Yay! Gorgeous!
Watched the eagles with envy. Arran has Golden Eagles (VERY rare) but they hid themselves from me. Probably didn't want the publicity.

We have peregrine falcons on top of the County Offices - they arrived by chance and were lured back by a specially made platform to mimic the edge of a cliff.

Did you know they are the fastest animal in the world? I presume when diving, which is a little bit of a cheat, but still impressive.

Webcam link (hey it also shows you the weather where I am ;)

We make a big deal out of them because as far as we know, we have the only breeding pair in Bucks. Also they are nesting on a building many people think is the epitome of man's brutal domination over the natural landscape.

I'm going to bookmark your birds, glad to have the link in both menaings of the world.

I am having trouble getting the feed to start on yours. I'll keep looking.

I know, I find these things very exciting. I love birds!

I know people see Eagles around here, but I don't think I've ever actually seen one in the wild, just hanging around. I like the bar that is next to my neighborhood because you can look out over the river and see the blue herons and the egrets that hang around. Some can be expected to be in a certain place at a certain time.

TBH you won't see anything more tonight. Birds gone bye-byes.
But it would be cool if it loads for you another time.

I'm made up that we have Red Kites in the area.
I've posted plenty of pics of my rabbit warren housing estate. It's amazing to see birds of prey wheeling and whistling overhead. They're here because of our proximity to the Chilterns, but there are some that seem to have made this estate part of their regular haunt.

I really miss having fields so close by. All built on now. I couldn't have told a hawk from a handsaw in those days, but I knew the names and properties of every tree within four miles. Now they're the spindly type that grow beside motorways.

I envy you your eagles. Even if yo uhaven't seen them yet, you have a chance.
I have to return to Arran to finish my Eye-Spy book. Otters, red squirrels and Golden Eagles.

Yeah, I was also thinking it's been a while since I've seen a white squirrel. My town and surrounding towns were lousy with white squirrels. Maybe they live more in town.

Everyone thinks they're albino but they're not. There wouldn't be hoardes of them, then.

And there are black squirrels near Lake Erie.

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Oooooooooo footfootfoot ... would you mind if I shared that with the folks at the Best Western Denver South Hotel and Dinosaur Museum ?

.... it's just the sorta thing that will make em GIGGLE :)

infinite monkey;863148 wrote:

Yeah, I was also thinking it's been a while since I've seen a white squirrel. My town and surrounding towns were lousy with white squirrels. Maybe they live more in town.

Everyone thinks they're albino but they're not. There wouldn't be hoardes of them, then.

And there are black squirrels near Lake Erie.

Maybe I've talked about this before, but a kid in our elementary school did a science fair project on the black squirrels of Arlington County. Apparently black is a dominant color and when a black squirrel mates with a gray one, the litter will be black. Washington National zoo had a bunch of black squirrels from Canada, but some escaped, and have been moving westward along the Route 66 corridor at a rate of about a quarter mile per year. You used to rarely see black squirrels in the neighborhood, but now they are very common.

we also had a handful of white squirrels in the park where I do my urban trail blazing, but I haven't seen one there in a couple years. I think their line died out.

we used to get back squirrels with bright red tails at times when I was living in Toronto, not common, but not really rare either. Quite startling looking though.



I understand there are a number of towns that are havens to large pockets of white squirrels

(why am I now picturing bloody white boomer.... and singing christmas carols *gods my brain makes weird connections)

Ocean's Edge;863154 wrote:

Oooooooooo footfootfoot ... would you mind if I shared that with the folks at the Best Western Denver South Hotel and Dinosaur Museum ?

.... it's just the sorta thing that will make em GIGGLE :)

please do.;)

In Ottawa, where I grew up, there were thousands of black, red, and grey squirrels. They were everywhere. I never saw a black with a red tail, though, even in Toronto (four years there). Pity. I still find it strange that PA has so few squirrels, relatively speaking.

I've never seen a white squirrel. Does anyone have pics?

WTF is a Reptor?

Maybe you could've said velociraptor or something?. Reptor isn't a word.

orthodoc;863167 wrote:

In Ottawa, where I grew up, there were thousands of black, red, and grey squirrels. They were everywhere. I never saw a black with a red tail, though, even in Toronto (four years there). Pity. I still find it strange that PA has so few squirrels, relatively speaking.

I've never seen a white squirrel. Does anyone have pics?

I'll try to remember to look around.

There was also a mottled squirell, like he was white but had brown/black spots more like a dog. Only pic I had of him he was deader n' hell...don't know what happened to it.

The eagle cam is awesome today, with the sun shining.

:eaglesmilie:

infinite monkey;863168 wrote:

WTF is a Reptor?

Maybe you could've said velociraptor or something?. Reptor isn't a word.

REPTAR!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptar

Oh, so it was Rugrats writers who couldn't spell. My bad.