Hornby Island, BC - Bald Eagle Cam

cam - http://www.wildearth.tv/web/dch-hornby- ... byeagles01

This nest has streaming video with two cams, one a close view of the nest, the other further back; the internet connection from the nest can currently only handle one stream at a time, so the view may switch back and forth on occasion.

The nest is located about 30 meters (100 feet) up an evergreen tree, and is situated on private property about 100 meters from the ocean on Hornby Island in the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland. According to Doug Carrick, the eagles built their first nest in the fall of 1989 and fledged their first eaglet in 1990. This will be their twenty-first year of nesting; they have fledged 18 eaglets in 20 years - just under one a year, which is considered average for eagles in this area. There has been a camera in the nest since September 2004, and it was first connected to the internet in spring 2006. The pair laid two eggs in 2006, neither of which hatched; the camera was offline in 2007 after the line was damaged in a winter storm but Doug reported that they raised and fledged two eaglets (Thunder and Lightning) that year; they did not lay any eggs in 2008. In 2009, they laid two eggs, both of which hatched; the younger eaglet Echo died in a freak accident, after becoming tangled in the female's feathers; older eaglet Hope fledged successfully.


Copyright 2009 Doug Carrick and the Hornby Eagle Group, used with permission, all rights reserved

Information from Doug and Sheila Carrick,
Hancock Wildlife Hornby Island Eagle Cam Archives, and the Hornby Eagle Group

link to files from the 2008-2009 nesting season for this nest

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Added November 24, 2009 - Please note that all pictures and videos taken from the Hornby Bald Eagle Nest cams are copyrighted and are used with kind permission. Thanks, Doug and Sheila Carrick and Hornby Eagle Group!

(originally posted by RaptorDan in 2006)

Doug Carrick, who is a volunteer monitor on Hornby Island, compiled these dates from 13 years of observing approximately 15 different breeding territories.

RETURN FROM MIGRATION – October 2, give or take 3 days.

MAJOR NEST BUILDING TIME - From October 20 to November 15. Bringing branches to nest, large ones around the outside and fine twigs on the inside.

WINTER SURVIVAL TIME - November 15 to January 31. With shorter and colder days, nest-building stops. Much of their time is spent getting food, mostly fish but also winter-weakened birds and ducks.

MATING - Think of St Valentine’s Day, February 14 (a suitable time for mating) – but include the two weeks before and after this date – in other words, the whole month of February. Eagles are also seen mating in the first half of March, just a week or two before laying eggs But at no other times in the year.

FINAL NEST PREPARATION - A second flurry of nest-preparation takes place from mid-February to mid-March – adding more branches, followed by soft materials like dry grass and moss.

EGG LAYING - March 25, plus or minus one week. A second egg 2 or 3 days later.

BROODING – The male and female take turns sitting on the eggs for approximately 35 days – from March 25 to May 1, plus or minus one week. One could consider the month of April as the “brooding” month.

CHICKS HATCH - May 1, plus or minus one week.

CHICK DEVELOPMENT - Peeps can be heard by June 10 - Sitting on edge of nest by June 20 - Flapping wings by June 25 - Flapping and Jumping by July 10

FIRST FLIGHT - July 25, plus or minus one week. (85 days after hatching)

MIGRATION OFF ISLAND – from mid-August to September. This migration includes adults, new eaglets and any other non-breeding eagles. All eagles go.

ADULT EAGLES (0NLY) RETURN TO ISLAND - October 2, plus or minus one week

IMMATURES STRAGGLE BACK TO ISLAND - One or two arrive back in November, a few in December and increasing numbers in the next few months.

Dates will be earlier in southern Vancouver Island and the Fraser Valley and later in northern Vancouver Island and up the coast

Please note that this is largely a self-regulated thread.

We ask and encourage you to keep the posts about the Hornby eagles - and suggest that off-topic discussions be held in one of our existing chat threads in the Garden Fence Chat area (viewforum.php?f=6) or in a new thread you create there for friends of Hornby to chat.

But to a large degree, as long as posts comply with the major rules that ensure that this is a family-friendly site (no obscenity or pornography, no discussion of politics or religion, and no personal attacks or flaming), it will be the members of the thread who will decide how strict the thread should be.

If you have questions, please let me or one of the FAs know.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

I'm tickled pink to be able to see my favorite eagle couple again!

Thank you JudyB. It was most generous to allow a place on the HWF website to follow the Hornby Eagles. This is their 21st year nesting and are probably 27 years of age, approaching the 30 year age generally considered the oldest recorded age for eagles in the wild. It will be interesting to see how they do in the next few years. Will they still lay eggs? Can they be successful in fledging more eaglets? (eighteen eaglets, so far)

THANK YOU! This is so wonderful to be able to see my favorite pair again!

Thanks for that info Doug!
WoW - 18 eaglets - they really have done their bit towards the recovery of the species!!

Oh my goodness, tears of joy here! I just turned the cam on and an adult is on the nest eating something. I can't begin to thank Doug and the powers that be that we have this beautiful pair back!

CLOSE UP!
"Pictures/video copyright Doug Carrick and the Hornby Eagle Group, used with permission, all rights reserved."

GREAT to see a Hornby eagle up close and personal again!

Apparently it is an Opossum!!
Doug says that they flew along the beach with it yesterday - and started eating it there - it would be too heavy to get up to the nest till it was half eaten!!

Perfect...thank you so much .

They are both there!

12:46 PM
12:51 PM
copyright Doug Carrick/HEG

Welcome back Hornby

copyright Doug Carrick/HEG
2:20pm


BOP, Can you please tell me how you get the CU cam?

ETA 2:25 nestoration at the nest

2:40pm, CU cam I don't know how I got CU cam It switched from WA to this
"Pictures/video copyright Doug Carrick and the Hornby Eagle Group, used with permission, all rights reserved."

There is no way for the viewer to switch - someone (Doug?) seems to be switching back and forth between CU and WA according to the action.

Thanks, I thought it was magic
It's great to have them back

I am not sure who to thank, as haven't managed to find what happened to enable the streaming of the Hornby cam, but I wanted to say a really big THANK YOU to whoever has made this possible. I had reluctantly accepted that I wouldn't see our beautiful Ma and Pa Hornby again , but occasionally check the forum for any Ground crew news - so glad I did.

I have been over to their chat and I gather that Doug has the ability to change from one camera to the other depending on what the eagles are doing. I do know that the set up isn't quite complete with WE. Real glad to see them though!!

Just a little note of advice - if anyone is still using an old version of IE, you may not be able to watch. We still have version 6, and all I could see was a black screen. But, luckily also have Google chrome installed, so quickly changed to that and "hey presto" there was the nest - sadly no eagles at the moment though. Firefox is also good, and I am guessing so is the latest version of IE.

Apologies if this has already been covered.

5:11 pm
Mom's on the nest working on the remains of the opposum.
copyright Doug Carrick/HEG

Oh my, how wonderful to see mom - or pa - at dusk in the nest.

Thanks so much!

Wow, hi everyone, just checked in to read up on anything new and I see the cam is back! wooo hooo how wonderful to be able to check out Ma and Pa Hornsby. Thank you to whoever made this possible. This pair is so interesting to monitor. Can't wait to see if they decide to go for the Guiness Record for breeding pair.

Terri >^..^<

WOO HOO The beautiful Hornby eagles are back A huge thank you to Doug and Sheila Carrick for making this possible

Hi kathyj!

I'm not sure why you got the black screen, but I still run IE 6,and could see the nest fine. (although this wide angle takes some getting used to ) The important thing is you got to see Ma and Pa!

Thanks for the advice though.

Thanks everyone for the s'caps! I had to leave before I got to see Ma and Pa, so I really appreciate your efforts!