NCTC Shepherdstown, West Virginia - Bald Eagle Cam

http://www.fws.gov/nctc/cam/eaglecam.htm
This is a still cam that refreshes every 30 seconds and is on 24 hours a day.
There's also streaming video with sound! LINK

Liberty and Belle have been in this location near the Potomac River since late 2002, built their nest mostly in late 2003 and early 2004, and Belle laid her first egg February 14, 2004. The pair raised two chicks in 2004, one in 2005 and three in 2006; they had three eggs in 2007 but none survived the spring storms; and they raised three chicks in 2008.

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

2008-2009 Season:

• adults seen: one seen September 13, both there November 3rd
• eggs laid: January 31, 2:14 am; February 2, 7:50 pm; seen February 6, 7:00 pm
• hatched: March 14, 3:04 pm (36 days for #3); other two eggs did not hatch
• fledged: May 30, 5:50 am (77 days)
• last seen: July 31 (139 days ~20 weeks)

(Information and from the National Conservation Training Center;
Mar 24 2008 screen cap by Sherri from the Maine forum)

Link to last year's thread for the NCTC Shepherdstown bald eagle cam

Lori on the Maine forum caught this picture of Liberty and Belle visiting the nest on November 3rd:

Caught this at 4:00pm today

DEC~28,2008

nice catch

DEC 29,2008~ THE LOVE BIRDS~ YUP MOVING STICKS

WORKING TOGETHER


HEY! WHERE DID MY HELPER GO


GOT TO RUN~CIAO ~ STARR~ THE EAGLES WENT BYE BYE

Are you viewing this site through Real Player? rtsp://198.185.178.74/encoder/eaglecam.rm

For some reason I can't open it in Real Player. I sent the link to a friend to check it out and he couldn't get it to open either. He did figure it out by the link and I'm now using this link to view this eagle site
http://www.fws.gov/nctc/cam/eaglecam.htm

TFR/Toni

Thanks, TFR/Toni! I've changed the link in the first post. Guess they updated the links along with their other housekeeping! Really nice to see the eagles back at the nest - thanks for the pictures, Starr and kittenface!

caught a visitor to the nest..brief visit....

adult in the nest at 722 EST

this pair has been busy this morning....

Hello everyone~1/16/09
Moving sticks


Time out for some mating


Now that was fun ~Yup Yup

Back to moving sticks~one flies off
Now where did he go


LATER~STARR

1/17/09
A beauty on the nest..

nighttime visit...

SUNDAY 18TH JANUARY

5:10 pm
Both eagles busy in the nest!!

Not sure which one this is but was doing nestorations in the snow

Great pictures, everyone! Nice to see them so ... active! They laid their first egg Feb 4 last year and Feb 6 in 2007 - so I think they're right on track!


It looks as if you attached the whole window the picture was in, instead of just the picture - if you click on your attachment, you'll see a lot of empty space highlighted. Which program do you use to save your screen shots, Kim? I'm guessing there's a way to crop the "picture" so it only contains the real picture! Of course, if you did that you'd then need to delete the current attachment and replace it with the new one - not necessarily worth the effort, as we can see the lovely picture of the eagle working on the nest by double clicking.

OK that seemed to work had to change "attributes" in my paint program... now if I could jsut get that one area gone guess this is better then that WHOLE large area...nest empty no more nestorations now...anyone watching the norfolk nest we are expecting 1-3 inches of snow here tomorrow.. so ma and pa norfolk may be in the snow also {we dont get snow very often} Thanks Judy for the help

Looks great, Kim! Attachments do seem to have a big empty area beside them - nothing that can be fixed, I'm afraid.

Enjoy ( ) the snow - I think we had something like 15 inches yesterday - really glad we didn't have to go anywhere!

Hello everyone ~A few pics from today~1/19/09




LATER~STARR

Back on the nest 5:00 pm.