Post by thumper59 on Feb 11, 2013 21:37:28 GMT -6
This will be a lengthy post/thread as people want,, and need to know about my neighbor buddies..
In the fall of 2009 we were having one of numerous parties in the shop "about 300' from house to the left" as viewed from the webcam,,, to right of house on below picture. Started noticing these bald eagles hanging out between the shop and my house..almost every party we had that fall.
Come to find out now, they loved music,,would come within 50' of the shop, so later in fall about thanksgiving or so,, i noticed they were building a nest about halfway between the house and the shop..
Better picture can be viewed from still pictures in this forum. (Click link) Double click on that picture when you get there..
Google Earth Map
Later in November, i borrowed a ptz cam from my friend ,Dan'o, as his business "Franky and Louie's" was closed for the season. This was a great camera, "an AxiS 214 PTZ" and he is still using it,, but it was not a true outdoor cam,, no globe or heater. Me, being the hillbilly i am figure i would use a 15 gallon aquarium, turn it upside down,, install a heater in there, with a thermometer,, so i could turn and zoom the camera.. To see the birds nest in 2009 i had to mount this contraption on my roof,,, but guess what,,, i did work...That year they had 2 eaglets only one fledged "reason not known, as it was very hard to see nest once leaves grew out" We did name the 1st eaglet "Ernie", i can't seen to dig up a photo of him yet... here is the 1st video i ever took of the E's,, it was in their 2009 nest.....i never broadcasted live that season.
Towards the end of this video,, i was trying to entice Einstein to come down and grab a fish,, off my handrail,, anyway, the tree he is in towards the end of the video is where they decided to build their 2 new nests the following year!! In the old location, cars were stopping, honking, kids throwing rocks at them ect. and nothing i could do about it as the nest wasn't on my property.. As i've said all along they picked us,, as neighbors,, i never lured them over here.
Skipping forward to 2010 as i said i had noticed after the leaves fell some their was an eagles nest right in front of my house!! I was telling dan, my friend about this and he said take the camera, as it was his off season again and try to broadcast them, as i had told him about the hornby nest. Stop reading and "click this link" before going on....
Quite the hillbilly setup, huh? I spotted my tree and up 40' i went with this wild looking thing.
On Oct 21 2010 the E's were live,,, and have been online ever since. All seemed well until about the first of december when i noticed,, they were building a second nest up to the left in same tree,, but about 18' higher up,, well my view was not very good that year. Also we found out a disturbing thing,, about mid march the camera was getting way too hot in the aquarium,, so it had to come down
They laid 2 eggs that year
First egg layed evening of feb 11th
2nd egg laid evening of feb 14th
First Hatch March 20th
2nd Hatch March 23rd
We lost 1 of the babies
around April 5th
"Reason not known" think it was blown out of nest during a bad storm
Morgan fledged June 12th Click this link to view
about 80 days after hatching
April of 2011 with the help of some of my viewers we purchased the veilux cam a PTZ with globe and heater,,, so up the tree i go again Click this link before reading on....
.
In the fall of 2011, i had allready decided we needed a better view,,"more height" ok lets just put in the same tree,, so i hired Junior and his crane .. Got cam over to the old nest tree mounted, and everything,,, and poof,, i shorted a wire from power supply to the cam,,, were were out of business "for about 8 day" till i could get new one,, its a big power supply and "yes i do have a spare now" during this time junior left his crane here for the re-install,, a couple of days before i got the new power supply, i had a change of heart,,, the tree was really dead, and how would i ever service the cam,,,, no way to climb to where i had it mounted,,, so plan b was developed.. I'm looking at the tree and decided i could get 16 more feet of height with some tree work,,, so it was game on... Click link b4 reading on....
...I did move cam to left limb about a month later,,, but this is where the cam is to this day..
On to the 2011-2012 nesting season..
Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Earlie morning Feb 7th we believe 1st egg was layed
Feb 10th on 2nd
We never knew there was a third,,, what a surprise,,, as you know things were still hard to see,, still not high enough..
March 16th shortly after noon was first sighting of Spirit.
March 17th around 5:30 pm was first sighting of Sunshine.
Chance was 1st video'd March 24th
Fledgings
Chance the Youngest June 5th
Spirit the oldest June 11th
Sunshine June 12th
Later part of the summer we had noticed the juvie's had destroyed the upper nest..
So one day i'm looking at elsie sitting in this nest with only about 10 twigs left in it,,, she's looking at me,, thinking what happened?. Then and there is when i decided i had to help out my neighbors,Old tree very dead and not safe to rebuild her nest there anyway,, she was just exhausted from a summer of 3 very active juvies.
So here we go to the next step a brand new nest box with hedge limbs for perching!! Cliclk this link Note there are 2 pages
In the mean time, please view stuff on this forum,"the screen caps still" and other areas. Also E an E's facebook has a timeline that go's back to 2010,,, lots of good stuff to view.
I'm sure i'll be editing/adding to this post,,, its a good start for now,,, all pictures will expand once you set up a user account,,,, i'm sleepy
In the fall of 2009 we were having one of numerous parties in the shop "about 300' from house to the left" as viewed from the webcam,,, to right of house on below picture. Started noticing these bald eagles hanging out between the shop and my house..almost every party we had that fall.
Come to find out now, they loved music,,would come within 50' of the shop, so later in fall about thanksgiving or so,, i noticed they were building a nest about halfway between the house and the shop..
Better picture can be viewed from still pictures in this forum. (Click link) Double click on that picture when you get there..
Google Earth Map
Later in November, i borrowed a ptz cam from my friend ,Dan'o, as his business "Franky and Louie's" was closed for the season. This was a great camera, "an AxiS 214 PTZ" and he is still using it,, but it was not a true outdoor cam,, no globe or heater. Me, being the hillbilly i am figure i would use a 15 gallon aquarium, turn it upside down,, install a heater in there, with a thermometer,, so i could turn and zoom the camera.. To see the birds nest in 2009 i had to mount this contraption on my roof,,, but guess what,,, i did work...That year they had 2 eaglets only one fledged "reason not known, as it was very hard to see nest once leaves grew out" We did name the 1st eaglet "Ernie", i can't seen to dig up a photo of him yet... here is the 1st video i ever took of the E's,, it was in their 2009 nest.....i never broadcasted live that season.
Towards the end of this video,, i was trying to entice Einstein to come down and grab a fish,, off my handrail,, anyway, the tree he is in towards the end of the video is where they decided to build their 2 new nests the following year!! In the old location, cars were stopping, honking, kids throwing rocks at them ect. and nothing i could do about it as the nest wasn't on my property.. As i've said all along they picked us,, as neighbors,, i never lured them over here.
Skipping forward to 2010 as i said i had noticed after the leaves fell some their was an eagles nest right in front of my house!! I was telling dan, my friend about this and he said take the camera, as it was his off season again and try to broadcast them, as i had told him about the hornby nest. Stop reading and "click this link" before going on....
Quite the hillbilly setup, huh? I spotted my tree and up 40' i went with this wild looking thing.
On Oct 21 2010 the E's were live,,, and have been online ever since. All seemed well until about the first of december when i noticed,, they were building a second nest up to the left in same tree,, but about 18' higher up,, well my view was not very good that year. Also we found out a disturbing thing,, about mid march the camera was getting way too hot in the aquarium,, so it had to come down
They laid 2 eggs that year
First egg layed evening of feb 11th
2nd egg laid evening of feb 14th
First Hatch March 20th
2nd Hatch March 23rd
We lost 1 of the babies
around April 5th
"Reason not known" think it was blown out of nest during a bad storm
Morgan fledged June 12th Click this link to view
about 80 days after hatching
April of 2011 with the help of some of my viewers we purchased the veilux cam a PTZ with globe and heater,,, so up the tree i go again Click this link before reading on....
.
In the fall of 2011, i had allready decided we needed a better view,,"more height" ok lets just put in the same tree,, so i hired Junior and his crane .. Got cam over to the old nest tree mounted, and everything,,, and poof,, i shorted a wire from power supply to the cam,,, were were out of business "for about 8 day" till i could get new one,, its a big power supply and "yes i do have a spare now" during this time junior left his crane here for the re-install,, a couple of days before i got the new power supply, i had a change of heart,,, the tree was really dead, and how would i ever service the cam,,,, no way to climb to where i had it mounted,,, so plan b was developed.. I'm looking at the tree and decided i could get 16 more feet of height with some tree work,,, so it was game on... Click link b4 reading on....
...I did move cam to left limb about a month later,,, but this is where the cam is to this day..
On to the 2011-2012 nesting season..
Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Earlie morning Feb 7th we believe 1st egg was layed
Feb 10th on 2nd
We never knew there was a third,,, what a surprise,,, as you know things were still hard to see,, still not high enough..
March 16th shortly after noon was first sighting of Spirit.
March 17th around 5:30 pm was first sighting of Sunshine.
Chance was 1st video'd March 24th
Fledgings
Chance the Youngest June 5th
Spirit the oldest June 11th
Sunshine June 12th
Later part of the summer we had noticed the juvie's had destroyed the upper nest..
So one day i'm looking at elsie sitting in this nest with only about 10 twigs left in it,,, she's looking at me,, thinking what happened?. Then and there is when i decided i had to help out my neighbors,Old tree very dead and not safe to rebuild her nest there anyway,, she was just exhausted from a summer of 3 very active juvies.
So here we go to the next step a brand new nest box with hedge limbs for perching!! Cliclk this link Note there are 2 pages
In the mean time, please view stuff on this forum,"the screen caps still" and other areas. Also E an E's facebook has a timeline that go's back to 2010,,, lots of good stuff to view.
I'm sure i'll be editing/adding to this post,,, its a good start for now,,, all pictures will expand once you set up a user account,,,, i'm sleepy