Well we finally got some rain. We're waiting for a couple of cables for the audio hookup, and we should be set to reactivate the cam.
New thread.
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1 – 200 of 343 Newer› Newest»YAY rain!! YAY cam!! Thanks Steve! Good morning everybody!!
Thanks Meagan and thanks Steven for the new thread. Exciting news about the audio and reactivation
Alright! Cool, Steven.
Thanks for the new thread, and thanks for the heads up, Megan. Won't have to water today!
LOL, Robyn, you're supposed to chill and sleep in in the rain.
Our eagle looks like he's gonna attack something.
Uh oh, Bai just picked up Squiggles in her front paws, but I think she's still asleep. Looks like she might want to go into roll the squiggles any minute now.
Right now, think Squigs is getting a bath...
Eagle still looking cool!
POOF! he's gone
Oh man, he just left. Hope he comes back!
Looks like a linebacker, but eagle is back in BW!
Eagle still hanging out at BW, and Bai never did roll Squiggles, they both went back to sleep. Donkeys are getting breakfast, all lined up as if for a parade. Lots of fish in Bonaire, but the windsurf cam is down.
BBL
GOOD MORNING SUZ & ROBYN--
The Capt. has a Dr. appointment this morning and I had to get him off and running. Did I miss anything?
Good morning America, how are you?
Lights on while driving
Flags flying high
Nine Eleven is the reason why!
HI! all my eagle buddies:Suzanne, Megan and Robyn!
JIM I can't tell how long you have been up or if you even ventured to get some sleep since you have Pete's Pond up & running! I need my coffee! Saw the BW male eagle!!
Checked out Princess Dawn and the Norwegian Jewell.. Going cruising again today!
GOOD MORNING JO--
Can't wait til daylight to see Anne-Marie's ship. Do we know when it is due to dock in Sitka?
Squiggles is nursing, and the eagle is back yet again.
Geesh, good morning Wanda and Jo. Sorry, didn't even look, just posted. Wanted to get the news out about our eagle, he's been in and out all morning.
Jo, headlights on while driving, too!
Good morning Jo
rain is coming down steady
Bai rolling Squiggles! Funny to watch.
Morning Wanda, I thought saw you there...
Beautiful eagle! Waiting for female I think.
Wanda - I am not certain if she has a day more at sea before getting there.
Mits and Paula will be able to tell us. I am good at scheduling things, but not so good at following schedules lol!
Ok, I apologize. I saw you guys were here, but didn't read the posts, so just did that. Jo, you mentioned the headlights, sorry, didn't mean to parrot you!
Wanda, we had a trip to Africa this morning, Jim did a great job of the play by play of who was there and what they were doing.
Bai is rolling around with Squiggles, and rolling Squiggles too.
Bai got her hind feet involved with the Squiggle roll! Well, now she put them down. Wonder why she does this everyday now. Too funny.
Eagle left, Bai still rolling Squiggles. No, now Bai is gonna nurse the little one.
Awesome, eagle back with a fish!
DIVERS!
There are quite a few divers this time, one is taking pictures.
Waive to the nice lady...
Man, that was a closeup! Scary!!
Wow, guess we were meeting the diver team. Neato!
And the fish return.
Somebody said Anne Marie docked in Sitka tomorrow but I dont' remember what time.
Man, I always miss the divers!
GOOD TUESDAY A.M. EVERYONE Anne is at sea today and arriving in Sitka tomorrow.
Me too Megan
REMEMBER 9-11
GOOD MORNING JILL & MITS
GOOD MORNIN' EAGLE BUDDIES!!!---and OUR #1 FLORAL GIRL!!---THANKS STEVEN & MEGAN---It's RAINING here in WV, temp. 70° and GOD is smiling on us!!!!---HELLO ROBYN--SUZANNE---WANDA---& MEMA JO--What's the update on our "PRINCESS ANNE"---I bet she is having so much FUN--she has forgotten that we are all waiting for a WAVE from her!!!---Isn't she COOL!!!
I just had a thought. Wouldn't it be great if we could all go on a cruise together. That ship would never be the same!!
Great news in the original post this morning - I think I was so excited to get back to the ship this am that I almost missed reading Steve's most important message: ...We're waiting for a couple of cables for the audio hookup, and we should be set to reactivate the cam.
WHOO HOO!
Good Morning NORMA--
"Princess Anne"----Priceless.
HI MITS & JILL!!!---Isn't it a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!
Hey Suzanne, Robyn, Wanda, Jo, Jill and Mits:)
Anne arrives in Sitka, at 10 their time tomorrow, that will be 2 east coast time, and they leave for Juneau at 6, their time, 10 our time.
Morning, Mits and Norma.
Eagle in BW, just finished his fish.
Getting daylight on Anne's ship's cam... at least you can almost see a horizon now. It's not totally pitch black, so that's something.
WOW!---I SEE AN EAGLE AT BW!!!---Isn't that GREAT!!----
Hey, Megan, I got one pic of a diver, VERY close up. I'll send it to me at yahoo, then send it to you. You're still not getting mail from me here, right?
Hi Norma:) Um, I don't know Suzanne, mail from your work address wasn't going thru before for some unknown reason.
The "LITTLE PRINCE" is taking his PANDA NAP on his grate!!!!!----He learned that from our LEADER---"MEMA JO"!!!!!
WHOA SUZANNE----Are you exchanging phone #s with the HANDSOME DIVER!!!---That's pretty COOL!!!----Haven't gotten to see SQUIGGLES this a.m.---just BAI'S body!!!!
good morning, suzanne,wanda, jo, jill,mits and robyn. If you want to see more of where anne will be go to welcome to alaska.com and you can bring up all webcams for each port of call or land in alaska. You can even see where her ship will dock in ketchikan which will be downtown. Hope this helps
Good Morning BOBBI--
Thanks for the info.
Thanks, Bobbi.
MITS---Catching up on blogs--piece by piece----I read that "BABY MAGGIE" is crawling----AAHHHH!!---She is on the MOVE!!!----Bet she is proud of herself!!!!!--
MORNIN' BOBBI!!!----I had forgotten you have taken this cruise!!---Certainly envy you & ANNE---Would love to go to ALASKA!!
Thanks for the info!!!
I think I am addicted to the this site. Love all the cams. Think Jill was mentioning daylight up in alaska. In winter there is darkness. Not sure how many months but know that in May there are about 21 hours of light and 3 hours of dusk. Really need those room darkner shades.
Morning, Bobbi. Thanks for the info.
Megan, sent the pic to my yahoo acct, then sent it to you. You should have it by now, as should Wanda.
Norma, Bai was rolling Squiggles earlier, too funny to watch her do that!
Look at the ship cam now, looks foggy.
Or maybe it's not quite daylight yet...
Hi Bobbi! Thanks for the info.
When they reach Sitka tomorrow - is that where she will see eagles - where is the Eagle Lady we had read about? I have too many senior mometns lol
I did google Sitka - scenery around the town looks awesome. What do you remember about Sitka?
Great news, Steve! Thank You!
Our BW eagle is still there for us!!!
I see one panda outside in yard - think it is Mei
AND I see one panda climbing up onto the cages and I thought it was Tai BUT the eyes look more like Tian's.
Oooh, isn't he pretty!
Good Morning!!
PANDA CORRECTION: Tai is outside!
Mei & Tian are inside their den...
Yep! I wish they had wing blings! or paw claws! something for ID'ing them.
A voulunteer friend from the zoo has her own web-site on pandas, "all pandas all the time". The address is www.pandapoly.com
Morning Paula. Daybreak at Sea
Jo, the eagle lady is in Homer.
Eagle gone at BW
Morning, Paula. Eagle back.
Good Morning PAULA--
JO & NORMA....You are both a work of art this morning. Norma with her PRINCESS ANNE and JO with her PAW CLAWS.
Megan, did you get the pic?
Got it Suzanne, thanks. Freaky close up shot. Hello Paula!
Looks like Rain in Maine...
Morning, Megan. Enjoying the rain?
Jo, there are so many eagles in sitka. When we took the tender in from the ship, in a tree right by the dock there had to be at least 100 eagles. No kidding. Once in town they are all over. Flying, sitting on lamp posts, etc. Never realized how big they were until we were right next to them. Not afraid of the people at all. Not sure where the eagle lady would be. Didn't know about her when we went there. Sitka has a great russian influence. Really pretty town. Nice buys on jewelry also.
yes a nice rain in Maine
Wow, Bobbi, sounds as if Sitka is definately the place to go if you want to see a lot of Eagles! That must have been awesome!
Hope Anne sees eagles like that!
Ok, put me on a plane to Sitka pronto. Hello Bobbi:) Definitely enjoying this rainy day, Paula. Working inside today.
Pink dawn on board ship...
Cam zoomed in on Squiggles, and eagle still just hanging out.
The eagle lady is in Homer, Alaska. Her name is Jean Keene. Look at www.eaglelady.com
MITS----Thanks for the PANDA SITE----Have been watching it & the site BOBBI mentioned---Welcome to Alaska----BIRD SLIDE---LOTS OF EAGLES!!!---The PANDA people in ATLANTA don't publish a whole lot of pics----but delightful stories about the LITTLE BEAUTY---"says she is a little thief---can't eat the little leaf cookies yet---But she sneaks in behind LUN LUN & steals them---then hides them!!!---SHE IS LIKE COUSIN "TAI"----She's a "LITTLE IMP" too!!!!
hope anne takes lots of pictures.It is awesome. Lets all go. Can you imagine all going on the trip there especially by ship. The ship would never be the same. lol. Trying to read here and watch 9-11 on tv. It is really moving to see the film even after all these years. People should never forget what happened on 9-11. Reminds me that I am still a New Yorker even after all these years. God Bless them all.
Poof, eagle gone.
Wow, it's pouring on Peggy's Cove. Guess they closed the place, well, no, door is open at the lighthouse, but no people hanging out in the rain.
Paula & Megan - thanks for the info on the Eagle Lady in Homer.....
Bobbi - glad to hear that it is Sitka where she gets her eagles' fix. I sure hope she figured out her new camera by now! Hope her brother is able to follow her like we are online.
Lun Lun is playing all by herself this morning......Having fun with one of her daughter's new toy
Oh, check this out. I'm dreaming. www.baldeaglefestival.org
Looks like rain for Anne. Hope it gets out of the way before tomorrow.
Someone on the Kent forum was talking about Haines AK They had a friend who had gone AWESOME!
Suzanne I love that exercise
I can do it! lol
Wouldn't you just love to be up there when all those eagles are there!
YES!!!!
WOW MEGAN!!----I think you just found the site for "HEAVEN ON EARTH"----Let's all go there in NOVEMBER!!!-----You certainly are #1!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, Megan, that looks awesome!
ME TOO :):):)
LOL, Jo, I can do that one too!
Uh oh, who said rain? Raindrops on the Dawn Princess cam. Bummer!
He's baaaaack!! LOL
WOW....MEGAN.
He's goooone!! LOL
Must be touch and go day.
Osprey at BW now!
Cool, Paula, 2 of them!
Now 2 osprey
Sitka AK weather - Looks good for Anne tomorrow
Today: Chance of a morning shower. Partly cloudy skies early will give way to mostly sunny skies this afternoon. High 64F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 51F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. High 62F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow night: A mostly clear sky. Low 52F. Winds light and variable
BW is really a busy station today.
Lisa has put up the Heron's pictures from yesterday. She got some really good ones - we could only see it's body most of the time....
Also put Bob's butterfly pictures up that we had seen a while ago.
SUNNY for SITKA on WEDNESDAY
Thoughts for our friend Sharon at this time
SOME ONE JUST GOT WAX!!!!!
thought they had left for the season.....BBL:).
osprey at BW. 2
Squiggles alone.
Squiggles is alone, and osprey still hanging out. I thought they left also, Mits. Maybe these guys are migrating from the north and this is a stop off for them.
MEGAN----Are you in charge of making the RESERVATIONS for our NOVEMBER TRIP to the "BALD EAGLE FESTIVAL"----Put me down!!!
Looking at the underground weather sight for Sitka Anne is probably going to see some sea otters! I love those little devils!
DIVERS ARE BACK!
There are 5 of them.
Good Late morning all. Goodness my days go bye way too fast. So many cams, so little time LOL..actually though I haven't even opened a cam yet. anyway I did hear from Iris she has arrived safely in Istanbul. Has been to the Blue Mosque. I told her we've been there too LOL. She also told me where she will be on Wed, so I plan our curise will also be sure to see some of how she spent her day.
Cruise times will be 8:15 Eastern this Wed and Thurs night. We're having fun. The only thing missing is you...so come on along. get there early though to get set up if you haven't come before. Ask any of the newer cruisers it does take alittle bit to get good to go!!!! Once the cruise starts I do my best to move us right along for the sake of others who have other things to do like Study
SAFE JOURNEY HOME SUZANNE!!----GIVE MY LOVE TO "G" & FRIENDS!!!!
(lunch date)
LOL, PEACE.
Did you get to see him this time, Megan?
Looks like rain has cleared up and sun is coming out for Anne :)
Found a picture that I am taking the time to email to some of you.... can only do one addressee at a time. Maybe I'll put on momsters.......
PAULA I don't know how to attach a pic onto Momster's email DUHHHHHHHHHH
When you get the pic of Sitka's port full of eagles - will you try to post with message on Momster.. THANX...
Osprey must be taking a rest from their journey.
Well, of course not! Every time I walk away from the computer to answer the phone, the divers appear. Sorry, Norma the only reservations I'm in charge of are for field trips to the pumpkin patch. But, boy would I love to go to that eagle festival.
Wow, I hope that's what Anne gets to see! How cool is that!!
Lisa said the ospreys may be out of towners! Sort of looks like they may be banded on left foot, but can't really tell.
Yeah, I'm not sure where the ospreys came from. I doubt they're our platform birds. Probably passing through.
By the way, someone asked about the flowers behind the nest -- our ranger says they're tickseed sunflowers.
Hi Lisa! Great pics of the heron you have put up! We really have a busy platform today! Great to be watching it!
Hi Lisa! Those flowers are pretty changing colors now! Sort of gives that fall look.
Squiggles is nursing. Oh, zooming.
Wow, Jo that is a cool pic. Hope the eagles are waitng for Anne when she shows up.
Wow, they are awesome pics of the great blue heron. Beautiful.
Squiggles is alone, and squiggling. wonder if he/she is making noises? Zooming... oh yea, now she's still as a mouse!
2 Ospreys on BW nest...
Jim
GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
JIM
Good Morning All Eagle Friends
Thank you Steven for the GREAT information about the cam/audio. WOW !! ( :
Good morning again, Jim. glad you could go back to sleep! Enjoyed your African commentary this morning! So.....same bat time, same bat channel in the AM.
hee hee
Time for me to hit the road. All have a great eagle/osprey/panda day. Nice to see the ospreys again, even if they are just passing through.
Eyes to the sky, see the raptors fly!
I see you knew about the Ospreys.... Oh well, now you know twice.
By the way, Lisa, I asked about the 'golden blooms' the other day... I looked up "Tickseed Sunflowers" in Wikipedia...no entries, but they do have "Tickseed" which is not actually a sunflower, but
"Tickseed is the common name for the plant Coreopsis."
Jim
Have a great one, Suzanne. See ya tomorrow.
Jim
Good Morning again Jim! Isn't retirement great when you can do what you want to do when you want to do it? lol
If someone tells me to 'get a life' I get highly insulted at their comment!
I love my life!
See you tomorrow Suzanne! Take care!
Hi Dana!
Glo heard from Iris (check out her comment up around 11am)
Bye Suzanne! Hello Jim:) and Dana! I believe I have that flower from BW blooming in my yard right now, it's a native flower in our area, looks like a sunflower, hubby dug some up along the road in WV and planted it in our field. Not sure of the latin name.
I looked on the Web, and it's also known as bur marigold (Bidens coronata, Bidens trichosperma).
Here's a nice close-up photo of the flowers. This was taken by refuge photographer Mary Konchar. She often sells her work at our festivals and open houses
Yes I got to read it Jo so Iris knows we are following her lol
We'll be cruising again neat ( :
All those Bald Eagles in Alaska and I can't find a live webcam. You would think you could find many live webcams there.
Thanks, Lisa. That looks just like what I have blooming in my yard right now.
It's a beautiful, golden frame for the nestbox whichever of those names it goes by, don't you think?
Does it actually produce a seed like the sunflower, Mega, Lisa...anyone?
Jim
No, JIm, not quite like a sunflower, the seed is long but much thinner.
Check out the entry in Wikipedia on sunflowers if you have time.
The seed is actually a fruit, the flower is actually a "head" which combines many flowers....???
I just looked at a pic of one type of tickseed, and it does have something like a sunflower's center area.
Jim
SitkaRaptor Rehabilitation Ctr
The Alaska Raptor Rehabilitation Center cares for dozens of bald eagles and other rare birds that have been injured. Once nursed back to health, the rehabilitated birds are released back into the wild.
There is where Anne will think she is in feathered-heaven! lol
Nice 9/11 memorial page
http://www.mshepp.com/20010911.htm
There are lots of varieties of tickseed, I believe. Some large, some small.
Incoming at BW!!!
LOL, poor kestral still hanging in the air!!
I picked up the Kestrel, but next refresh shows the visiting Osprey female... Hahahaha.
Jim
If you Google bidens coronata it shows you a pic. It's actually in the aster family.
By the way, Paula, I've been meaning to ask you how you people post pictures to the blog at IWS, and do you know if we can do it here?
Come to think of it, Lisa might know that one too.
Jim
Jim - you can't post pics here. AT IWS you post them in photobucket and then put a link on the forum and that's how they show up there. That's how all the forums work.
You can check the technical thread, it is pinned at the top on the questions section.
LOL. I got the osprey too. Lots of nice variety.
More rain in Maine. Looks clear for Anne.
So, Paula, those pics of the SC nest on the forum are actually captured from something like FRAPS??
Jim
Thanks, Megan, opened another result to that search and found another name for it...Tall Swamp Marigold.
Jim
Yuppers, Jim.
Check your email folks. Chrissy from across the pond has sent us a lovely card.
Time for afternoon break!
Maybe Panda Nap - not really certain!
BBL
Check Bai Yun and little un right now.
Jim
Another osprey at BW
I see the ATLANTA BEAUTY is asleep!!!----I cannot see SQUIGGLES or BAI---they are off camera!!!---probably taking PANDA
NAPS----When is the next hook up with ANNE?
Hi, Norma,
it's good to see you today. I hope you are well...
I was just shutting this operation down for a while. I've got to get busy around here.
Everyone remember to say a prayer for those who lost their lives on 9/11.
Jim
Bai and Squiggles have not been on camera for a while. The last time this happened, Squiggles was getting her exam. Maybe we will learn her gender today.
No one home at BW and Princess Anne is in the middle of nowhere right now.
"PRINCESS ANNE" Norma's name for Anne Marie's ship. Love the name.
I hope they can tell us this time, Wanda!
squiggles is there by herself
squiggles turned over from her back to stomach
closeup squiggles alone
Squiggles and Bai together now.
The last exam was on Sept 6, last Thurs. No word of any today.. Guess we'll wait until this Thurs & then she/he will be 40 days old.......
I guess he/she has its eyes open now. I am so anxious to see it romping around Mom and playing.
First steps don't come until 4 months, I think? I looked in at ButaButa before their cam closes - still sleeping! DC pandas are coming in and eating now.
I wonder what Anne is doing on the ship-there must be sooooooo much to do and see. I think I am starting to think that a cruise would be very nice, Wanda. How about you?
Eagle at BW!!
Could somebody as Lisa to move the camera up a bit. Then we could see whole birds on the far side of the nest, instead of the boards at the bottom.
Jill, they do move it back usually, may have forgotten.
Norma I sent you some links in an email........
Oops! That eagle sneaked in on me!
Looks like the adult male from the Bottom Up! lol
I still love it that the Blue Heron was on the platform yesterday!!
I'll send Lisa a chopped off head pic to remind her :)
He's a handsome one.
Do you see a band on his right leg?
2 eagles now, one screaming
Can't tell, Jo.
I do see some white, but it looks too far up to be a band.
See ya , heading home.
TO the right would help too. Maybe we should just go over there and fix the camera to our liking. LOL
haha...my camera technician is getting testy with me. A couple times I've pointed out that I would like him to move the camera so we can see the background again and so the eagles' heads are not chopped off. The last email I sent, he didn't even reply to. So I think I'm in hot water. :-)
The problem is that he put up a new cam earlier this year and the specs on the cam were such that it changed how much of the background we could see. In order to get the old view back, he will have to actually redesign the camera arm and get the bucket truck out there so he can install it. So it's not as easy as just pointing the cam up.
He says it will be fixed before next season, but I sent him a photo of the headless eagle to prod him into fixing it sooner. Unfortunately, I don't think it will be a quick fix.
Looks like a light rain in Cambridge
See you later this evening, Paula
Well, Lisa, we can tell by the legs and talons just what bird is visiting us lol
Did you happen to converse with Steve yet on exactly WHAT new equipment we have up in our Sycamore tree? I am anxious for an explanation of
REMOTE camera... I hope we have night vision like yours.......
So, Lisa, what is your cam techs job description, isn't he supposed to follow your instrutions:).
Son just came for a visit (dinner really lol) Spotted a very large owl in the tree over in neighbors yard. He said a screech owl - he heard it.
I am deaf - all I know is that he was very very large & there may have been 2 originally
My cam tech is a volunteer (like me), and he's the treasurer too. I can't make him mad since he gets the money we use to run the cams. haha
The overriding issue with both cams is they are hard to reach. The Eagle Cam is 80 feet up in a tree, and the Osprey Cam is on a tall pole (I think 40 feet high), so getting up there requires the use of a tree climber (eagles) or a bucket truck (ospreys).
We have to get those services from outside the refuge (for a fee), and we don't normally do that unless it's an emergency or the start of a new season with new equipment.
I'm usually ready to do the fix before my cam tech, as I get more impatient and I want it to be perfect for the cam watchers. He's more laid back about it all.
Regarding Steve -- he forwarded my email to the person who actually got the camera. I haven't heard back yet about what equipment you all are using now.
Lisa - did you see Steve's comment the beginning of this thread?
AUDIO CABLES WOW!
Well, thanks for trying anyway, Lisa. I'm just glad the osprey cam is still up and running.
Yeah, the audio will be great. Even if you pick up some of the wind, it will be cool to hear all the chirps and calls from the eagles. And the other birds too.
When we were at the nest last time, the lower part of the tree was really crowded with Baltimore Orioles
Maybe one day, Lisa, you will come up
What is on your calendar for Oct 20, Saturday. That's the open house! Would love to have you come......
You could bring Bob, his wife and his camera with you! That would be cool.
Mits Is it afternoon hour on the ship? I have the GMT sight up, but I just can't get it together in my mind. Another DUHHHHHHHHH for JO
Oh, don't feel bad, Jo. I can't figure out that time difference either. I'll sit in the back of the short bus with ya.
You're good company, Megan!
Both eagles have returned to
BW Platform...... They are such a handsome pair!
Megan - how about an update on daughter's hand?
Something is really distracting the 2 adult eagles on BW platform... Maybe the heron is trying to land...
WHOA!
I don't know what the time is wher Anne is right now, but, it is 2:57 in Juneau, Ak. if that helps.
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