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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on June 10, 2006, 01:29 PM:

For those of you who haven't seen this, it's definitely worth a look, or ten.

It's a webcam that's been placed in an eagle nest in the Northwest. There are two eaglets in the nest and two proud parents doting over and feeding them 24/7.

http://www.infotecbsi.com/wildlife/

Posted by Raven (Member # 204) on June 10, 2006, 03:27 PM:

Thanks for posting sweety! Always looking for a cool new site to add to my favorites list! Haven't seen anything yet.. but I'm watching! How cool!

Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on June 11, 2006, 08:32 AM:

Very Kewl!!

I get a few seconds of good video, then it has to re-buffer, over and over again. Anybody know if there is a way to correct that?

Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on June 11, 2006, 08:36 AM:

Yes, the solution is high-speed internet.

Sounds like you have dial-up, which I have too at home. I also have wireless which I can tap into at Starbucks and other places.

Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on June 11, 2006, 08:51 AM:

No, actually, I have my internet over Charter cable and I believe its at 3meg. It was the fastest they offered until recently. Usually I dont have a problem.

Ill figger it out.

[ June 11, 2006, 08:54 AM: Message edited by: Andy L ]

Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on June 11, 2006, 11:25 PM:

All I can see is black...Oh yeah...must be night time!?!?

Is this the same link that MULE posted a while back?

May not be a problem Andy. I've got DSL and it happens to me too. But all I see is nighttime. LOL

[ June 11, 2006, 11:28 PM: Message edited by: Locohead ]

Posted by greasewood (Member # 815) on June 12, 2006, 05:21 AM:

Here's a note from their website:

quote:
NOTE: because so many people are tuning in, when the site viewing capacity has been reached and you will sometime get jerky motion or a black screen. Just keep refreshing until you get in. Sorry for the popularity -- but of course you are the problem. But I am so honored out eagles are being appreciated. Happy Viewing. --- David

Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on June 12, 2006, 05:47 AM:

I kinda figgered that out on accident.... Kept spot checking last evening and refresh til it stuck. Got lucky once and a parent was in to feed them. That was cool. Then, one of them I thought was going to fly out of the tree, but just flew across the nest.

Thanks Tripp, thats a kewl site.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 16, 2006, 03:43 PM:

extremely windy, today

Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on June 17, 2006, 08:28 AM:

That must have been that same wind that came though here on Thursday.

I'm still missing the steel lid off of a 55 gallon trash barrel, and I'll probably never find that 5' baby pool that my dogs like to lay in to beat the heat.

Two chairs off of the back deck made it almost a quarter of a mile before they hit a fence.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 29, 2006, 11:45 AM:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201558,00.html

Posted by Buffalobob (Member # 825) on June 29, 2006, 02:35 PM:

Keeps the gene pool strong.

There are some things to be said for that and then again I am getting at the age where some of the Native American tribes that practiced that philosphy would be putting me out for wolf bait.

[ June 29, 2006, 02:37 PM: Message edited by: Buffalobob ]

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on June 29, 2006, 03:41 PM:

Do not take me wrong, but what does that say about the effort humans go to to "save" conjoined at the head twins, and mermaid babies and many other congenital birth defects? What does that do to the gene pool? Or is it enough that it enriches society and elevates mankind above the beasts? Sometimes, you have to wonder at all the money spent on supposedly "endangered" species, and not enough money spent on people in genuine need?

Good hunting. LB

Posted by Buffalobob (Member # 825) on June 29, 2006, 07:30 PM:

The national budgets for health is about $330B and the environment is 8 billion and for endangered species program $1B. On the state level Fish and wildlife side I would guess "nongame" species like salamanders, songbirds,and tortises are maybe 10% of the annual budget. Endangered species are about 5%. Game animals and game fish are the majority of the budget because we are the majority of the customers and pay the bills. Lot of federal money goes to the states for fish and wildlife from excise taxes on our hunting and fishing equipment.

So when we compare a line item such as endangerd species against the whole health budget it is tiny. Now if we compare it to a particular disease such a Parkinsons or Luekemia it is more significant.

For the first time in decades and decades the endangered shortnose sturgeon came up the Potomac River to spawn. This is because of two things. The Potomac River has been cleaned up greatly over the last 30 of so years. Secondly, what few fish remained have been protected as best you can for a secretive scarce live underwater type creature. Whether there will ever be enough to open fishing for them again I do not know. There is still a myriad of problems out there in the river including the increasing human population and the need for drinking water. The east is going to be like the west and there will be no water in the rivers for the fish.

When I came here in 1981 there were no eagles nesting on the Potomac. Now there is about one nesting pair for every ten miles of river. On the same note you could float down the river in a canoe and catch a 100 smallmouth bass in just a few hours (and release them). Now there is so much fishing pressure that it is hard to catch even 10 fish.

One a different note (or perhaps the same thought) being as I am just typing here. I saw the hunting license statistics and once again the number of hunting licenses sold nationally has decreased.

Anyway, I had a nest of robins out in the front yard in a Small tree. Tehre were five little birds and they all got blown out of the nest about three weeks ago. Nest was maybe ten feet high. The fall broke ones neck and another suffered internal injuries and died. I got out the stepladder and put the other three back up in the nest. I think they made it.

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