WHITE ROCK 2021~2022 Observation & Discussion
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6.15athe camera has slipped more , eagles not seen since the 3rd or before
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Thanks, Amy - I know David is aware of the urgency, and is trying to line up permits, equipment and people to make this happen as fast as possible. Here are a couple of current pics from the North cam (click larger):
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1:36 pm
I've moved the North cam to preset 15, looking at the CU cam, so we can tell how much it's shifting.
We can't move any faster on getting a team in there to fasten it back together - but at least we'll know what's happening.
Zoomers - feel free to look around with the North cam, but please leave it watching the CU cam unless there's something especially interesting going on. Thanks!
Here's a current picture:
And here's the current view from the CU cam - I strongly recommend that we don't move it.
Thanks - and keeping fingers crossed!
I've moved the North cam to preset 15, looking at the CU cam, so we can tell how much it's shifting.
We can't move any faster on getting a team in there to fasten it back together - but at least we'll know what's happening.
Zoomers - feel free to look around with the North cam, but please leave it watching the CU cam unless there's something especially interesting going on. Thanks!
Here's a current picture:
And here's the current view from the CU cam - I strongly recommend that we don't move it.
Thanks - and keeping fingers crossed!
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Re: WHITE ROCK 2021~2022 Observation & Discussion
I hope the WR cam/nest work happens pronto. Today Croydon Sr returned to his nest territory less than a week after flying north for a mountain get away. Mom and/or Dad WR could return any time
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Thanks, Lynne! I'm thinking he comes back and forth more than most - but it is a concern.Lynne wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 3:58 pmI hope the WR cam/nest work happens pronto. Today Croydon Sr returned to his nest territory less than a week after flying north for a mountain get away. Mom and/or Dad WR could return any time
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Good morning, everyone! Lovely sunset, Lynne!
Here's a picture of the CU cam for the record:
Here's a picture of the CU cam for the record:
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3:03pm - sunny afternoon, spawn lines along water edges
people walking
people walking
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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2022
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2022 Cam Maintenance
Matching Drive
Matching Drive
Hi everyone!
It's certainly been an unusual nesting season - but one thing remains the same:
We need your help so we can be prepared to see what happens next.
The first $1000 in donations toward our cam maintenance fund drive will be matched by long-time supporters of Hancock Wildlife - so the time to donate is now!
I may take a bit of a look back in another post - but now I'd like to look ahead to our plans and hopes for next year - and how you can help us get there.
While we all miss Dad Trooper at Delta 2, I'm looking forward to watching Ma Delta teach DM (Delta Male) how to be a good mate and with luck a good dad to the little chicks we hope to see them raise together in the new nest we'll be building for them, with big thanks to everyone who donated to our GoFundMe drive.
The French Creek eagles raised two chicks in 2022 - though they didn't use the nest with the cam and, even if they had, the cam went offline before the nesting season got underway. Ever the optimist, I'm hoping we'll be able to get the cam streaming again, and at the very least see the adults and maybe next year's fledglings visit the nest with a cam - and just maybe they'll decide it's time for a change and move to the nest with the cam!
Mom Dimple and Dad Duffer finally produced eggs in 2022 after three years together at Harrison Mills, but were disrupted by an intruder during the incubation. I really want to see them raising little chicks next year - and I think it will happen, and very much hope that we'll be able to replace the cams that are no longer working so we'll be able to see them raise their first chicks together.
A young pair of eagles took over the Surrey Reserve nest for the 2022 season, and weren't ready to nest then, but I think they are now - and we're looking forward to watching SM and SF (Surrey Male and Surrey Female) learn how to raise the tiny chicks we hope they will have. This is the only nest that doesn't need major work - but it would be nice to get the cams cleaned - and to do the preventive maintenance needed to make sure they keep working.
The White Rock pair had a sad year in 2022, losing their chicks when they were a little more than six weeks old - and I'm hoping we'll be able to see them come back with another successful season (they've successfully fledged 14 young eagles so far). One of the cameras at the nest they appear to be preparing for next year is in danger of falling after one of the straps holding it broke, so we are hoping to be able to fix that quickly.
The screenshot above is Ma Delta feeding her tiny eaglets in 2019 - and I would love to have five pictures like this, one from each of our nests, at this time next year.
Naturally, the eagles will have a say in that - but we need to get functioning cams securely fastened at as many nests as possible in the month or so while the eagles are generally away in search of salmon.
We'll be posting additional information about the work we'd like to do at the various nests soon, but we really do need donations now so we can start reserving lifts and scheduling climbers and hopefully buying a few new cams. And remember - the first $1000 in donations will be matched - so if you adopt a nest for $250, HWF will receive $500!
We've tried to answer some of the common questions about donating here - All About Donating - and please feel free to PM me if you have other questions or concerns.
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