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Sept 30 2016

Sept 30 2016



Welcome to the 2017 nesting season for our Channel Islands eagle pairs. The season of rebuilding is to come!

West End Nest

Yesterday K-08 was at the nest ... appeared to be courting K91 a bit.
K08 could be the male from either two nests ...
WE in 2010 - Dakota or SR in 2011 - Scout

A few pictures of K08 and K08 and K91 Thunder




Video - K08 delivers a fish to the nest presumeably a gift or love token for K91

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTOIPw1nEmo

Thanks to Pat for the great footage!

We had not seen Superman at the nest for awhile ... but he was at the nest this morning with Thunder K91 so he is okay!

Dr. Sharpe is working on the cams ... sounds like he is switching from ustream over to Utube.
Dr Sharpe posted this message on Facebook on Sept 23 2016 with regards to the cams.

I am trying out using YouTube for our live eagle cams, which should get rid of commercials and seems to stream better (also has more options for streaming quality from which you can choose). If you are still seeing all Ustream feeds on the camera page, then simply right click on the page's background and select reload (could be a symbol, depending on the browser).

Also, Dr. Sharpe is looking at changing the structure of the chat ... here is the discussion that was posted on chat this morning.


• iwsciber 7:05 AM - Chat is likely going to change to Disqus or similar. Too many complaints about Ustream chat and I like being able to see what has been said in the past and conversations can be separated (see Explore.org's Sauces cam athttp://explore.org/live-cams/player/c ... bald-eagle).
• iwsciber 7:08 AM - I'll likely have only two camera views available. I read too many complaints about the cameras pushing the chat off to the side, but more complaints about people having trouble streaming the cameras, which is largely because of the bandwidth required to stream more than one or two at a time.
• iwsciber 7:09 AM - YouTube requires higher quality video, so each camera is going to require 2-6 Mbps of bandwidth to stream. That doesn't even take into account individual computer's RAM and ability to handle more than one feed.
• iwsciber 7:10 AM - This current setup fits nicely on my 15 inch laptop's screen at 125% zoom.
• iwsciber 7:11 AM - A wider chat box allows it to be shorter so that those that need to zoom in more to read can still see most of the camera views too.
• iwsciber 7:12 AM - As the cameras become available, I will add them to the list and on the popout options below (for those with fast computers and great internet speeds).
• iwsciber 7:15 AM - Hopefully Two Harbors, Bald Canyon, and a peregrine nest on Anacapa.

Sept 30 2016

Cam Updates


The Fraser Point and West End cams are both live.



The Sauces cam is playing old footage.
The Two Harbors cam remains off line; Dr. Sharpe has to do some repairs.


The Big Bear cam is also live.

Superman and K91 early this morning (0650 hours). Superman did appear to be limping when he
was in the nest.

Hopefully Superman and K08 did not have a showdown ... would not be good for either of them!


Here is a video thanks to Maria for capturing this footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKaTP1z2CJA

2 pm
The nests have been MT ... no further visits to the West End nest.
Would sure like to see Superman again!

644 to 7 pm
Superman K01 and K91 visited the nest; Superman arrived first then K91 landed right afterwards.

Unfortunately K01 Superman does appeared to be injured; he was limping or favoring
one side quite noteably while he was in the nest ... so he definitely has some kind of injury.

I thought K91 was watching Superman closely tonight ... she knows he is hurt!

Bless his heart ... hope whatever is wrong it heals well ... we simply love him to bits!

It was too dark to see any detail ...

Superman has no trouble in flight ... he exited the nest then his lady K91 followed.





I recorded their visit but my stream was sluggish luckily Jann also recorded it so her is a link to the video



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfh8P4f5DA&t=9s

October 1 2016

Morning Channel Islands Friends

West End cam link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lLd4fQw8dc


K91 the resident female has been on the nest since
about 615 am. She is tracking her territory from
her rock and is currently preening her coat
feathers.

No sign of Superman K01 yet this morning.
I know we are all anxious to see him after noticing
yesterday he is injured.

WE

755 am
K91 preens her tail feathers.




814 am
K91 exited the nest ... no sign of Superman during her long visit
at the nest this morning.