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Bald Eagles, Osprey and Penguins a photo album from various web cameras and links
to them
And for those searching, there are no
publicized
bald eagle nests in Cambridge, ON .....again, NO NESTS!!! Osprey photos and links: Wonderful Scottish link with sound:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/webcams/birdsofprey/lochgartenvideo.aspx
two photos on left from Scotland. Map shows migration path of
one Osprey. All juvenile Osprey migrate until sexual maturity. Both our juvenile ospreys have been on the nest this morning, seeing off corvid intruders quite stridently. They are both handling looking after themselves remarkably well, although dad is still supplying fish. It is hard to imagine them flying south in as little as two or three weeks, all the way to Africa, a mammoth journey of up to 4,000 miles. What always amazes me is that, unlike many of our migratory birds, the ospreys do this journey alone, not following a flock or even their parents, but setting out alone. Our juveniles will be setting out at the grand old age of three months or so, into the wide world alone, as nature intends. Once they get to Africa (if they survive the hazardous journey) they will spend a ‘gap-year’ holiday there, fro anything from a year to four years. When they reach sexual maturity, the instinct to breed will drive them back to where they were born, or close by, to start families of there own. Just how ospreys navigate is of course, still a mystery- migration is one of natures biggest enigmas. We know they use a mixture or genetic instinct, visual clues, and [probably some sort of geomagnetic perception, but this is an area we are learning more about every year. A brand new bald eagle webcam, just discovered on Feb.18,2010.
Blackwater Refuge _ Cambridge, Maryland (http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/camhtm2.html)
website webcam has the following two photos: resident pair yelling
at other visiting birds and lone eagle drying wings. Blackwater now has two eggs (Feb.2, 2010) and nest was hit by massive weekend snow storm.
HORNBY ISLAND nest:- two eggs this year
Norfolk
Botanical Garden nest: -
http://www.norfolkbotanicalgarden.org/e-community/eagle-cam New season - first egg on Feb. 1,2010 and a massive snow storm on same weekend. all 3 above photos show egg in nest on Feb. 2/10 Fantastic webcam work this year!
Sutton, OK
nest -- unfortunately only one of the 3 eggs hatched this year. One
egg stuck to the female's
Feeding the Eagles! Comox, B.C., Vancouver Island, Jan. 2009
Note: I did not take the above photos .... they
were sent to me by somebody on the west coast! Penguin Colony - German Antarctic Receiving Station O'Higgins Base (63,32°S - 57,9°W) (http://www.martingrund.de/pinguine/pinguincam2.htm#2)
The 2009/10 season has suffered an incredible tragedy. The
forces of nature are not always gentle.
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