Shepherdstown Eagle Cam Daily

Friday, April 05, 2013

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Some of you may know that we have had some drama with our birds the past few days.

We had indications that an intruder was in the vicinity of the nest on Saturday and again on Sunday morning. Yesterday afternoon, our pair was involved with an extended altercation with another adult Bald Eagle who is likely interested in our pair's territory.

One of our birds stationed itself on an adjacent tree watching, and soon, the other (likely the male) came flying across our entry road chasing another adult bald eagle. These birds fought overhead while our other bird stationed itself in the top of the nest tree. The fighting went on for some time, with the interloper bird was finally chased west away from the nest tree.

We are not sure what the conclusion of this altercation was, but both of our birds are back in normal mode. We'll see if there is any additional challenges.

Remember this is wild nature we are watching. Nesting habitat is at a premium, thus nesting pairs will be challenged occasionally.

New thread.

Monday, April 01, 2013

Monday

New week thread.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Friday

TGIF Thread.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Thursday

New thread.

Cam up. Kudos to our tech Clayton who diagnosed the actual issue and got the needed part delivered this AM.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Tuesday

New thread.

The guys are heading out this PM to try a temporary fix to get the cam back on.

Update: They were out there working on it. NO good... :(

The guys will keep working

Monday, March 25, 2013

Monday PM

We were able to diagnose the problem. The camera and power supply were undamaged (good thing). The problem is in some of the communication gear that gets the signal to the Internet, some of these connections were cooked by the power surge. We will order these parts immedeately and will get things rolling again as soon as we can.

New thread.

Monday

I just got clearance from the Elkins Ecological Services Field Office to allow our tech go to the nesting tree. Hopefully he can get things resolved.

New thread.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Friday

The power spike yesterday apparently zapped the communication link between the camera and the link to the Internet. NCTC folks are working to diagnose and fix ASAP, while ensuring there is no impact on the birds.

Stand by, new thread.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Thursday

There was a power outage at NCTC that has impacted the cam. I am on leave but have been in contact with the tech folks. As soon as they get clearance from the NCTC land manager to go within the nest exclusion zone they will be able to reset things. Please bear with them; it will likely be tomorrow AM.

New thread.