Subject: raptor cams
Date: Apr 27 17:00:33 1998
From: Diann MacRae - tvulture at halcyon.com


Hello, Tweets

A friend asked me for the addresses of some of the sites with raptor cams,
so I made up this list and thought perhaps some of you on Tweeters might
not have seen the addresses previously plus two are from the European Bird
Net.

<Here is a list of the "raptor cams" that I have been looking into every
day. **Remember the time differences**: the first two are in the U.S., the
second two in Europe.

Our own peregrine nest site, Suite 5600 of the Washington Mutual Bank
Building, is in downtown Seattle. The falcon is Bell, and the tiercel is
Stewart. They are named after streets nearby and have nested in this
location for three years. There are four eggs under Bell (number four laid
on my birthday, 3 April) and they are due to hatch at the end of this week
or early next week. There is much local publicity on the television, in
the newspapers, over the internet, and through the closed circuit camera
photos that passersby on the street can view. This site is at
<http://frg.org/frg/page4.html> (Remember, tweeters, this was written for
someone on the east coast!)

This and the Seattle peregrine site are my favorites, the bald eagle
because this nest was built by the eagles, is away from the cities, and the
video cam is solar-powered. The single chick hatched three days ago, I
believe; one egg did not hatch. Views of the mother feeding the chick
fish, brooding, etc. have all been seen the past two days.
<http://www.nu.com/eagles/eagles.htm>

Peregrine nest in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, now has four downy chicks
<http://www.transarc.com/Falcon/camera.html>

This site is at an electricity plant in Doel, Belgium. The picture seems to
be updated
about every 30 minutes. The nest has young and the falcon was tearing up
something on today's photo; one chick at least could be seen to the side.
The site is <http://www.electrabel.be/nl/col4/falcon.htm>

The nest of an Eurasian kestrel in a tower in Austria, Upper Austria, LINZ,
can be seen at <http://www.linz.at> At this site, it almost seems that
the kestrel is moving around; sort of a delayed action motion photo (wait
til it completely downloads to get the movement).

Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
tvulture at halcyon.com