Love is in the Air
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Love is in the Air.
If you haven't told your kida about the birds and the bees, this is NOT a family video. Also if you still think baby eagles come from storks, well it's your choice whether or not to watch this short video.
Love is in the Air
Video sent by glo77
Love is in the Air
Video sent by glo77
Monday, January 08, 2007
Luvulation at the Nest Today Jan 8, 2007
Luvulation at the nest longer version
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If you enjoy the splendor and beauty of eagles in general I would like to invite you to also view the action at For the Love of Eagles here you will find Video and Photos of Eagle cam action from many places around the web.
Today's video over there is from the Eagles in Florida whom we watched here earlier this week show us the making of a brood patch. There is a Feed Blitz sign up on that BLOG as well If you want to know when that site is updated.
From this point on this BLOG will only feature the NCTC eagles...BUT many cams are getting much more active!!! Go visit...Sign Up and keep up to date on Eagle Season 2007 the easy way....I will do the work I love and you can enjoy the result!
Friday, January 05, 2007
Brood patch and Nest care exchange
Incubation: Heating Egg
For an egg to develop normally, it must be exposed for a considerable length of time to temperatures a few degrees below the normal 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) avian body temperature. Indeed, the ideal incubation temperature for many birds' eggs is about human body temperature, 98.6 degrees F. Almost all birds create the required temperature by sitting on the eggs and incubating them, often transferring heat via a temporarily bare area of abdominal skin called the "brood patch."
On the other hand, the embryo inside the egg is also very sensitive to high temperatures, so that in some situations eggs must be protected from the sun. Ducks with open nests, for example, will pull downy feathers (originally plucked to form their brood patches) over the nest to cover the eggs when they leave it, providing shade if the weather is hot and helping to retard heat loss when it is cold.
Brood patch and nest care exchange
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Embryos are less sensitive to cold than to heat, particularly before incubation has started. Mallard eggs have been known to crack by freezing and still hatch successfully. Eggs cool when incubation is interrupted, but this is not usually harmful, and few birds incubate continuously. Instead egg temperature is regulated in response to changes in the temperature of the environment by varying the length of time that a parent bird sits on them or the tightness of the "sit." For instance, female House Wrens (which incubate without help from the males) sat on the eggs for periods averaging 14 minutes when the temperature was 59 degrees F (15 degrees C), but an average of only 7.5 minutes when it rose to 86 degrees F (30 degrees C).
Many birds apparently sense the egg temperature with receptors in the brood patches, which helps them to regulate their attentiveness (time spent incubating) more accurately. Since the embryo itself increasingly generates heat as it develops, periods of attentiveness should generally decline as incubation progresses. Attentiveness is also influenced by the insulating properties of a particular nest.
Eggs are also turned periodically -- from about every eight minutes by American Redstarts to once an hour by Mallards. The turning presumably helps to warm the eggs more evenly, and to prevent embryonic membranes from sticking to the shell.
Eagles and boobies exhibit "obligate siblicide," in which the larger chick invariably kills its smaller sibling. For example, of more than 200 records of two-egg clutches followed in the Black Eagle of southern Africa, only one record exists of both chicks surviving to fledging. Obligate siblicide also occurs among pelicans, owls, and cranes. In obligate siblicide, which occurs even when food supplies are abundant, the second egg serves as insurance against loss of the first egg from infertility, predation, or damage, rather than as a means of rearing two chicks.
Copyright ® 1988 by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye.
My added comment. Just this one sentence on obligate siblicide once again points to the
Season of Miracles for 2006, and this particular pair of Birds and their 3 successful fledges!!!!
For an egg to develop normally, it must be exposed for a considerable length of time to temperatures a few degrees below the normal 104 degrees F (40 degrees C) avian body temperature. Indeed, the ideal incubation temperature for many birds' eggs is about human body temperature, 98.6 degrees F. Almost all birds create the required temperature by sitting on the eggs and incubating them, often transferring heat via a temporarily bare area of abdominal skin called the "brood patch."
On the other hand, the embryo inside the egg is also very sensitive to high temperatures, so that in some situations eggs must be protected from the sun. Ducks with open nests, for example, will pull downy feathers (originally plucked to form their brood patches) over the nest to cover the eggs when they leave it, providing shade if the weather is hot and helping to retard heat loss when it is cold.
Brood patch and nest care exchange
Video sent by glo77
Embryos are less sensitive to cold than to heat, particularly before incubation has started. Mallard eggs have been known to crack by freezing and still hatch successfully. Eggs cool when incubation is interrupted, but this is not usually harmful, and few birds incubate continuously. Instead egg temperature is regulated in response to changes in the temperature of the environment by varying the length of time that a parent bird sits on them or the tightness of the "sit." For instance, female House Wrens (which incubate without help from the males) sat on the eggs for periods averaging 14 minutes when the temperature was 59 degrees F (15 degrees C), but an average of only 7.5 minutes when it rose to 86 degrees F (30 degrees C).
Many birds apparently sense the egg temperature with receptors in the brood patches, which helps them to regulate their attentiveness (time spent incubating) more accurately. Since the embryo itself increasingly generates heat as it develops, periods of attentiveness should generally decline as incubation progresses. Attentiveness is also influenced by the insulating properties of a particular nest.
Eggs are also turned periodically -- from about every eight minutes by American Redstarts to once an hour by Mallards. The turning presumably helps to warm the eggs more evenly, and to prevent embryonic membranes from sticking to the shell.
Eagles and boobies exhibit "obligate siblicide," in which the larger chick invariably kills its smaller sibling. For example, of more than 200 records of two-egg clutches followed in the Black Eagle of southern Africa, only one record exists of both chicks surviving to fledging. Obligate siblicide also occurs among pelicans, owls, and cranes. In obligate siblicide, which occurs even when food supplies are abundant, the second egg serves as insurance against loss of the first egg from infertility, predation, or damage, rather than as a means of rearing two chicks.
Copyright ® 1988 by Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, and Darryl Wheye.
My added comment. Just this one sentence on obligate siblicide once again points to the
Season of Miracles for 2006, and this particular pair of Birds and their 3 successful fledges!!!!
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Building, Incubating and Defending the Eagles Nest
To enjoy the music that accompanies today's video, FIRST go to bottom of this page and hit STOP on the John Denver song.
Dec 29 winging it through Jan 2
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To see the entire video of Cartwheeling from the National Geographic Site go here:
Dec 29 winging it through Jan 2
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To see the entire video of Cartwheeling from the National Geographic Site go here:
Friday, December 29, 2006
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Nest preparation continues
Even those who watched the parenting of this eagle pair last season, are learning and enjoying watching this pair relate and work "sometime together " to prepare the nest for this new season.
Post Cmas pre New years Holidays 2006
Video sent by glo77
Post Cmas pre New years Holidays 2006
Video sent by glo77
Thursday, December 21, 2006
A Christmas Card Collage for you!
Be sure to Left click on this picture and see it large...Lots of fun stuff if you take time to look and enlarge it so you can see it.
I am off to visit family in AZ for the Holiday. many more pictures and videos to come in the New Year....maybe even a few before, But I am stopping now to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. No matter where the holiday may find you, may His love surround you.
This card is an assortment of various cards sent around by many of the bloggers who enjoy this Eagle Cam. If you like it you can save it or print it off for yourself by Right Click and Save to your own computer and print from there. Or I have made mine into a fun Desktop Just for the Holidays!!!
I am curious IF you have looked closely enough to see that there are Many Many Eagles in this collage....lots more than you will first spot. Take a good look and see how many you can spot.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Monday, December 18, 2006
Liberty and Belle from Live cam Dec 18, 2006
Liberty and Belle Season 06and07_0001
Video sent by glo77
To see this on a Larger screen, go here Once at the Video , you will even be given the option to click on the Zoom at the bottom of the Daily Motion Screen, and see it even bigger if you like. Enjoy
Monday, December 11, 2006
December 11 thru 17
Once you have viewed the Loop you might want to head here. You will find a Flickr file with many of the best photos so far that you can save to your computer if you like. A couple of them have little notes hidden in boxes there for you as well. One is on the page with all the cams some of us watch LOL. Another is on the Seasons Greetings one. Bookmark that site, so you can have it ready for the next time you see a photo you want to be able to save.
Newest Photos are now at the beginning fo the loop
Newest Photos are now at the beginning fo the loop
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Weekend of Photos Dec 9 and 10
Dec 10 Photos start with number 13. If you are reading this and are able to, I need your help!
A reminder to take a minute for others who have not chosen to be active Bloggers or reached out to join a group. Many of us lurked on the BLOG or just watched the cam last year. We have some First Timers watching again this year...only some can't do it during the day time always. Help me to help them learn to love these eagles too.
Some of you are very busy at work. Some of you are not computer comfortable enough to know how to save and send but are enjoying what others are sharing with you. Not everyone has access to save photos during the daylight hours but they are interested in seeing what has been happening.
Some of you are very creative with your wording for some of the pictures we will see and share over the weeks and months ahead. You will light a spark in the heart of the new one just watching for the First time, AND you will trigger nostalgic wonderful memories for those who have been around for the last Eagle Season. None of us including my self can sit and click and share everyday. Just please consider capturing and sending when you can.
I would love to be flooded with photos.
Some are actually just testing the water to see how involved they want to be with the Eagle Cam out of WV that a friend has grown to love and encouraged them to come and see what its all about. You never know who is watching and waiting around the corner or around the world.
As always click watch the show and ll pause button to enjoy viewing in large screen with your timing.
A reminder to take a minute for others who have not chosen to be active Bloggers or reached out to join a group. Many of us lurked on the BLOG or just watched the cam last year. We have some First Timers watching again this year...only some can't do it during the day time always. Help me to help them learn to love these eagles too.
Some of you are very busy at work. Some of you are not computer comfortable enough to know how to save and send but are enjoying what others are sharing with you. Not everyone has access to save photos during the daylight hours but they are interested in seeing what has been happening.
Some of you are very creative with your wording for some of the pictures we will see and share over the weeks and months ahead. You will light a spark in the heart of the new one just watching for the First time, AND you will trigger nostalgic wonderful memories for those who have been around for the last Eagle Season. None of us including my self can sit and click and share everyday. Just please consider capturing and sending when you can.
I would love to be flooded with photos.
Some are actually just testing the water to see how involved they want to be with the Eagle Cam out of WV that a friend has grown to love and encouraged them to come and see what its all about. You never know who is watching and waiting around the corner or around the world.
As always click watch the show and ll pause button to enjoy viewing in large screen with your timing.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Dec 8 New Photos "added to yesterday's Loop!
If you have already seen Dec 7th, the new photos start with number 14. Enjoy.
We do have some news you may not all know.
The still cam is up and running out of Wheeling now. Picture appears very clear and hopefully will function for us well from this point. Yesterday LIVE FEED however was "just a test" I am afraid it will still be a few weeks before the live Feed is regularly online for us. If I were you I would be keeping watch fairly regularly anyway. I think perhaps we may see the egg part of this Before we have live feed.
Please share your comments here on the comment section. If you have a caption for a photo you are sharing be sure to send that to me along with the Photo. If you have a thought you would like posted here on the new thread "here" where I am typing now, then send that along to me as well.
Remember to click Watch the Show to see it BIG Also hit ll in center to Pause and then forward on >> at your own speed.
To be able to save these Photos you must download FilmLoop and follow the directions in loading and saving or sharing Film Loops. Click on the Film Loop Logo you see on your Loop show as you watch. To view in Bigger screen, click on "Watch the Show lower left corner.
We do have some news you may not all know.
The still cam is up and running out of Wheeling now. Picture appears very clear and hopefully will function for us well from this point. Yesterday LIVE FEED however was "just a test" I am afraid it will still be a few weeks before the live Feed is regularly online for us. If I were you I would be keeping watch fairly regularly anyway. I think perhaps we may see the egg part of this Before we have live feed.
Please share your comments here on the comment section. If you have a caption for a photo you are sharing be sure to send that to me along with the Photo. If you have a thought you would like posted here on the new thread "here" where I am typing now, then send that along to me as well.
Remember to click Watch the Show to see it BIG Also hit ll in center to Pause and then forward on >> at your own speed.
To be able to save these Photos you must download FilmLoop and follow the directions in loading and saving or sharing Film Loops. Click on the Film Loop Logo you see on your Loop show as you watch. To view in Bigger screen, click on "Watch the Show lower left corner.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Don't forget to check for the Eagle Cam : Wed Dec 6.
Just a quick reminder to all of you that Wed. is the day the still cam should be turned back on. I want to be sure that everyone remembers. You can go directly to the NCTC Eagle cam page. Sometime on Wed. it should no longer read disabled for the season. Actually in its very own way it will be saying
Hoping each of you are in your own way are getting a sense of the Spirit of the Holidays upon us. What a "special gift" just having the cam back online will be to so very many of us.
For those of us who are from the Christian perspective it is our belief that Christmas Celebrates the time when our Creator became our Savior. As you ponder that statement may you also offer thanks to Him as Creator of that beautiful eagle, as well as the NCTC staff who makes the sharing of this cam possible for each of us.
I am asking anyone and everyone to Please save the very first moment you catch site of the nest...whether or not an eagle is present AND your first sighting of 1 As well as Both eagles in their nest. Send those pictures to me please. gkeeslar@sbcglobal.net
Seasons Greetings.
Hoping each of you are in your own way are getting a sense of the Spirit of the Holidays upon us. What a "special gift" just having the cam back online will be to so very many of us.
For those of us who are from the Christian perspective it is our belief that Christmas Celebrates the time when our Creator became our Savior. As you ponder that statement may you also offer thanks to Him as Creator of that beautiful eagle, as well as the NCTC staff who makes the sharing of this cam possible for each of us.
I am asking anyone and everyone to Please save the very first moment you catch site of the nest...whether or not an eagle is present AND your first sighting of 1 As well as Both eagles in their nest. Send those pictures to me please. gkeeslar@sbcglobal.net
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