Santa Cruz Island, California - Bald Eagle Cam

Pelican Harbor Nest Cam

http://www.iws.org/bald_eagles/nestcam.htm
direct link to the cam: http://media1.vcoe.org/eaglecam1

There is currently only one cam on Santa Cruz, at Pelican Harbor (the nest was originally known as Santa Cruz, but is now being called Pelican Harbor with the expectation that there will be more nests on the island in the next year or two). It is a streaming camera with sound, and is generally on during daylight hours, as it relies on solar power.

The parents were both hatched in the San Francisco Zoo (male K10 in 2001 and female K26 in 2002) and then fostered into nests on Catalina Island (K10 in the Twin Rocks Nest and K26 in the West End Nest). K26 laid two eggs in 2006 and two in 2007, one of which hatched each year. Their first chick was the female A49, known as Cruz. Cruz was the first eagle chick to hatch in the wild on the Channel Islands since 1949. The 2007 chick A63 was a male named Limuw, which is the Chumash name for Santa Cruz Island. Limuw died about 7 weeks after fledging; he was found by the side of the road in Nevada, probably hit by a car while scavenging roadkill. Cruz was on Santa Rosa (another of the northern Channel Islands) as of mid-November 2007 - you can follow her travels here.

Cruz and Limuw were assigned blue wing tags with the letter A because they were hatched on Santa Cruz, which is one of the northern Channel Islands; K10 and K 26 have orange tags with the letter K because they were raised on Catalina Island.

Based on past experience, look for eggs in the first half of March, chicks in mid-April, and fledging in late June or early July.

2007-2008 Season:

• egg(s) laid: first egg February 24, about 1:29 pm; second egg February 27, about 5 pm
• hatched: first egg April 1, 7:15 am (37 days), second egg possibly April 2, 4:15 pm (35 days) (confirmed sighting morning of April 3rd)
• attacked by juvenile and knocked from nest: May 19 (age 48 and 46 days); older suffered a fractured wing and younger a punctured beak; both were rescued by an IWS crew and taken to the mainland for treatment; coverage begins here: http://discuss.hancockwildlifechannel.org/viewtopic.php?p=280263#p280263
• returned to island and placed in hacking tower: younger - June 8 (age 9-1/2 weeks)
• fledged: younger A-64 "Spirit" - July 1 (89 days) (as of July 4, older eaglet is still on the mainland recovering from its fractured wing)
• returned to island and placed in hacking tower: older - July 14 (age 104 days - almost 15 weeks)
• fledged: older - July 17 (107 days - had to wait for broken wing to heal)
• died: older A-65 "Skye" died August 8 (18.5 weeks) - drowned tangled in kelp bed
• doing OK: A-64 "Spirit" was still on Santa Cruz as of the end of October 2008, and apparently doing well

Information from the Institute for Wildlife Studies; screen cap by Harpo516 of the IWS Forum)

The Santa Cruz/Pelican Harbor Cam shared a thread last season with the cams on Santa Catalina Island; this year the Catalina nests have their own threads:
West End
Two Harbors
Twin Rocks & Seal Rocks

Link to last year's thread for the Santa Cruz and Catalina Island bald eagle cams

New update

http://z7.invisionfree.com/CHIL_EagleCA ... topic=1873

Here is a long visit to the nest this morning posted by Eagle Duo - looks like nestorations have begun:
K10 And K26 On The Nest Dec 7

they definitely reconstructing...not deconstructing....amazing how short the break is between seasons...they are really always working towards breeding....amazing...thanks for the video

Wonderful video of the eagles working very hard on the nest.

It rained last night on the mainland nearby, Ventura. And there have been strong cold winds today, with more rain expected. Are they taking advantage of some debris blown down? Preparing while they can?? I don't know, but it's fascinating to watch.

Thank you for the vid, Ostrich! Reassuring to see them.

Merry Christmas, everyone! K10 is on the nest right now.

K 10 right before he flew off!



He's BACK after flying off for a sec!

And 15 min later he is still there. I've been hoping for some sightings of nestorations, but he is mainly just surveying the area, and the nest some too. But I haven't seen any tidying up.

Hi all! I'm new here over from the Maine forum.
Well, I'm not really new since I have lurked & read the threads here for well over a year.
When I found out that JudyB was now a moderator on the eagle forum, I just had to sign up.

The Christmas visit by K10 was a nice surprise but I'm sure wondering why K26 never came by
He sure was acting peculiar...
Here's a few videos from the visits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2_vnPVqKEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z8_mhB79Wg

Merry Christmas!

Hi LoriBeth

Glad you have decided to post here, it will be great to have you as an active member.

Nice videos of K10

Hi LoriBeth, Welcome!!

Nice take off and landing on the second video. He takes off at an angle and we get to see it longer than the first one. What a tiny stick. maybe 4 to 6 inches long. too funny, Dad.

Welcome, Lori! Good to see you here - and thanks for catching K10's visit today!

Thanks for the warm welcomes bociany, emc & JudyB!!!
It's nice to be here (finally) and I sure hope to add to all of your wonderful talents. I feel as though I already know you all...

The cam is down again today unfortunately.
Seems to be having many more issues this year since they moved their server. Lets hope they can get the kinks worked out soon before nesting season starts.

The West End and Two Harbours nests are down I believe, but the Santa Cruz feed is back up right now.

There is an IWS update posted with some new location information on A49:

Santa Cruz Update

K10 was on the nest again this morning. He's left again though.

He sure was ostrich ...but no sign of K26. I was so hoping to see her
12-29-07 ... Morning construction by K10



And an edited video of the visit: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AsbpjE4f8fk

I seem to recall that happening last year as well - there was a period around this time when K10 was making nestoration visits, but K26 wasn't around at all, at least not coming right onto the nest. I wonder whether she doesn't feel like coming to the nest until it's closer to egg laying time.

Ostrich, Are you calling her lazy? waiting till Dad has all the nestorations ready??

Added " a to make sure everyone knows I'm teasing..

Beth,

Me thinks Mom is out feeding for the future 2 or 3 progeny. Pa needs to get the nest in order and sock-in the larder.

K10 was on the nest again this morning. Unfortunately I missed it though.

This visitor just left in a hurry.

Yes they seem to get flickers and scrub jays visiting quite a bit.

Here is a video Eagle Duo posted of K10's visit:

Happy New Year From K10

K10 and K26 now on the nest!

thanks for the heads up