Bird Cam Update and Some New Nests to Watch

If you want a little break from watching your own little chicks, watching live bird-cams can be kinda fun and educational. These are cameras set up in or just outside of nests so you can peep in and see the babies on a continuous live video stream. Seems a lot of people (and kids) have been having fun watching the bird cams I posted about a little while ago here and here. Those were two bird-cams put up by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Since I have posted about the Red Tailed Hawks and the Great Blue Herons, the babies have hatched and grown considerably! In fact, the red-tails are fledging this week so you should check in before they are gone! The herons may be fledging next week.

I love the Cornell Lab site because they have good quality real-time cameras that don't have any advertisements. They also have a moderated chat window, so if you want to ask relevant questions of the knowledgeable moderator, you can. The Cornell people have also added nest cameras for American kestrels and ospreys. There are five chicks in the kestrel nest box in Idaho, and the osprey chicks should be hatching any time now!

Kestrils: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2451 

Ospreys: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2445

There are a couple of other live nest cameras I have been watching periodically that are up on another host called UStream. I dislike the annoying commercial breaks, but if you have the patience to put up with them, there is a cute little Anna's hummingbird nesting in Southern California here:
http://www.ustream.tv/worldofhummingbirds
Two babies have hatched this week.


There are also three bald eagles about to fledge here:
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

Have fun with the bird watching!