The Viera Owl Cam of the great horned owls nesting in a planter in Viera, FL has wound down to a close. The young owlet is out and about exploring life outside the planter and the last video is of the owlet perched and dosing on a trash bin.
Speaking of odd great horned owl nesting habits, have you heard the story of the great horneds nesting in a Home Depot in Arkansas? Is our world starting to become more like Futurama?
If you are sad to see the owl cam go, one of the coolest cams I stumbled upon last year was the MN Loon Cam. I even got to meet Larry Backlund, the man who has the loons on his property and blogs about them. I just checked the website and it’s live. I saw a loon swimming around the camera this morning, but no loon on the nest as of yet.
Your link to the owlet film instead goes to the log-in page for your blog.
Thanks for the note on the link, karen, should be fixed now.
He’s so fluffy!
The BioDiversity Research Institute of Gorham, ME has many live cams happening right now. Via their homepage http://www.briloon.org, you can get 2 Eagle cams, one is nesting, a Peregrine Falcon cam with eggs due to hatch any minute, a House Finch cam with birds recently hatched and due to fledge, an Osprey cam and soon the Looncam will be turned on and perhaps a second Loon cam will be operational as well. The BRI group is well worth your time to investigate; they do a lot of study with toxins especially mercury in birds & small mammals. The cams sometimes have some buffering issues but overall they are extraordinary and so are the scientists working at BioDiversity Research!
Thank you Sharon for allowing this post, you should check them out if you don’t know of them already.
What was I thinking? I was trying to look at the loons on the Looncam at midnight. It says there is too much traffic on the site, so that is why the cam is not loading……Hmm!? I am not the only one trying to watch in the middle of the night??
Anyway, I’ll come back when it is daylight.
The looncam, still aint working…..and now its daylight!
Perhaps that explains the big bold message on the loon cam page that reads:
“(WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTIES WITH THE LOON CAM. PLEASE BEAR WITH US, WE HOPE TO HAVE IT BACK UP AND RUNNING SOON)”
Wow…and I though I was a smart-ass.