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In
a nation obsessed with “The Sopranos," it’s hard to imagine how
a single camera trained on a birds’ nest in Maine could become a hit
show on the Internet.
Then again, when the birds are baby bald eagles fighting for survival –
even pecking their siblings to death to fatten their own food supply –
perhaps the popularity of the “Bald Eaglecam" isn’t surprising.
Perched high in a massive white pine near the ocean in Maine’s Hancock
County, the "Eaglecam" nest was chosen for stardom by state wildlife
biologists, who placed a surveillance camera in a nearby tree in January.
Their goal was to capture the lives of the resident couple through breeding
season, and beam their story live to a worldwide audience.
But the biologists never predicted the sharp dramatic turn the tale would
take, as thousands of viewers watched live on their computers.
from the Boston Globe
Bald
Eaglecam archive (link to Live
Cam) note:you can’t see anything at night
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June 9th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
across the river
http://amps-tools.mit.edu/hawkcam/