Bird Cams Around the World

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Nice catches, Beth!

Posted by Jim on the Yahoo forum:



Dan & Lil are getting busy egg making.



I have not seen it yet, but the new nest box was installed and based on comments in an email, I'm guessing it might be a little smaller than the old box.

Thanks for posting the video. I kept thinking that was going to happen while I was watching.

Thank you for the video, mwplay! This is encouraging.

Why would they make the new nest box smaller? That makes no sense to me. Of course, I haven't seen it either, but it doesn't sound like a good idea.

IMO, SF had a big nestbox compared to other sites. Luckily, once the eyasses are out of the actual box, they still have a huge runway to practice on, so there is no concern about falling out, etc.

And, honestly, I don't know the circumstances in making it smaller. Could have just been the physical manpower needed to build it that large and bring up all the materials (wood/gravel), or maybe the host site wanted it smaller? I know it was reported that there was a leak directly under the old box, so maybe they needed it smaller in case future repairs needed to be made? I'm clueless here...

This cam is on now!! Where have I been?
Egg talk!

Hi Matrix! This cam & the San Jose cam are both on year-round!

Only got one pic - darn! Sorry so small...by the time I could enlarge m/f was gone.

Wow! Much smaller box....

Thumbs down!

Looks like they went from one extreme to the other (nest size-wise).

Someone was sleeping on the ledge this evening until approx 9:30PM. I just happened to tune in and see that something caught his/her attention, then she walked down the ledge and out of the picture.

I don't know which bird it was. I'm thinking maybe Lil. We normally see this when it gets closer to egg time (Clara does this about 1-2 days before eggs, but don't remember Lil's pattern). Of course, could be that she's always on the ledge and I just don't see her because the smaller camera view.