Live Bald Eagle Cam

Willy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:42 pm **(#1)**

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles Just saw this one the News and looks pretty cool!

Hope you guys agree

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:39 pm **(#2)**

Wow! That's awesome. The wind was blowing and the feathers got ruffled a few times. This is a screenshot I took of it.

Willy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:41 pm **(#3)**

A little while ago, both were there and you could see the babies

There are two so far, and a third egg that is waiting to hatch.

FAQs

How high is the nest?
About 80 feet.

How big is the nest?
5-6 feet across, about the same deep; it weighs about 1½ tons.

How old is the nest?
The eagles built it in 2007. A previous nest close by fell when a windstorm broke one of the branches.

Some basic info if you scroll down some.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:53 pm **(#4)**

Mama was feeding the babies a fish (in foreground). She'd tear off a small piece and feed them. All I could get was just a little bit on one of the babies - the arrow is pointing to the baby. Mama wouldn't get out of the way. :hehe

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

O: Can you check out this site and tell me if you can get the live stream? I couldn't.

It's another eagles nest in the Deschutes, here in Oregon.

http://www.fs.fed.us/outdoors/naturewatch/eaglecam.html

Willy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:18 pm **(#6)**

It wants me to download apple quicktime player or something, and Firefox will not do it on its own....

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:29 pm **(#7)**

mahvin wrote:

O: Can you check out this site and tell me if you can get the live stream? I couldn't.

It's another eagles nest in the Deschutes, here in Oregon.

http://www.fs.fed.us/outdoors/naturewatch/eaglecam.html

I tried it mahvin and it just wouldn't go. It said connecting and that blinked off and on and then said stopped. No luck. :hoh

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:36 pm **(#8)**

I'll go check it out with the macbook...brb
I can get it fine...they still have snow. However it looks like nobody is home at this time.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:37 pm **(#9)**

I'll try this again:

As I am a sure fire nature lover, I really love this site!! Thank you so much for sharing it!!

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:42 pm **(#10)**

Watching the uStream eagles is addicting!

Willy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:43 pm **(#11)**

For a while I was watching an Owl which was really interesting too

Willy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:50 am **(#12)**

Babies Pics

SHOW SPOILER

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:53 am **(#13)**

Nice catches, Willy. What fun.

Willy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:55 am **(#14)**

If you leave the cam on with sound just wait till someone really starts making noise and then flip too it

Also I do believe there are three babies meaning the third Egg Hatched

Does anyone else count 3 or is that just me?

gerard82 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:19 pm **(#15)**

Why is it called "bald" eagle?
Gerard.

Willy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:20 pm **(#16)**

Cause they have a White Head and if you see them from a ways away they look Sorda Bald

Bald-Lack of Hair.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:37 pm **(#17)**

@gerard82

San Diego Zoo wrote:

Are bald eagles really bald?

No! Their heads are covered with short white feathers. The term "bald" may be from the Old English word balde that meant white. Bald eagles are sometimes called American eagles, fishing eagles, Washington eagles, and white-headed eagles. They belong to a scientific grouping of eagles known as sea eagles or fish eagles that includes the Stellar’s sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus.

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-bald_eagle.html

Willy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:42 pm **(#18)**

Here we have a Classic Case of Google vs A Resident of Michigan's Fathers Tellings

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

O's correct. How Bald became associated with hairless happens to be that most colonial men wore bald wigs, but happened to be hairless when they took those white (bald) wigs off and hence the association became. Not sure when they stopped wearing wigs; probably when the Republicans replaced the Whig party; lol (of course not).

Willy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:50 pm **(#20)**

Yeah I didn't mean that as in O being wrong it was more just what I had been told as to why they were called Bald Eagles.

Very Cool info Guys I ever knew that Balde (With an E) meant White.

Sorry if this or anything I say comes across the wrong way,
Willy