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/
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.
Bald eagles with three eaglets in Decorah Iowa
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles