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Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by photofun » Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:55 am

Welcome to the Hanover Bald Eagle cam in Codorus State Park Hanover in York County Pennsylvania. The eagles names are Freedom (male) and Liberty (Female)
Helpful ID guides below to tell them apart. This is the fifth season of nesting with the cams installed. Thanks to HDonTap for taking over the nest and setting up new cams to allow us to continue watching this nest.

Back on October 26th it was reported in the Evening Sun (https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/2 ... 761778002/) the following: The Pennsylvania Game Commission is no longer overseeing the Hanover bald eagle cam that has monitored a pair of eagles — viewers have nicknamed them "Freedom" and "Liberty" — that live in Codorus State Park.

The commission held the permit to the livestream, so if another group wants to continue the livestream it would have to apply for a permit, said Travis Lau, the director of communications at the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

There are a few reasons that the PGC is discontinuing involvement with the eagle cam, according to Lau:

The tree that the nest is in has a crack. The nest has also cracked. So there is no telling the future of either.
The location of the tree and nest make it difficult to get access to the camera for maintenance.
The commission is short staffed and it takes resources to be educators about what goes on in the feed.

HDOntap has taken over the project and are setting up new cams. There will be a 4K cam, a POV cam and a one with IR. They are planning on going live Dec.3 2018!

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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by photofun » Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:55 am

Links to cams, Cams to view live December 3, 2018, stay tuned

Link to multi cams https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/str ... e-live-cam

you may need to try other browsers to get it to work also.
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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by photofun » Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:55 am

This is the fifth season of this nest cam. This pair of bald eagles has made its home in Codorus State Park, just outside Hanover, in rural York County, Pennsylvania. They got their names through a contest where local people voted on names. Mom is Liberty and Dad is Freedom. They have been nesting in this tree for about 14 yrs now but there is not a lot of history on the nest before the camera was installed and started broadcasting in 2015. The nest is 75' up in an oak tree.

History of the nest starting 2015

2015 Season Season 1
2 eggs were laid
2/14 @ 5:50 pm
2/17 @ 4:45 pm

Hatch
3/24 egg #1 hatched on day 38 H 1
3/25 egg #2 hatched on day 36 H2

Fledged- An eaglet jumped up on the cam and pushed it down so we were not able to see much action and also there was PS on the lens
around 6/14-6/19 both left the nest.

2016 Season 2 Another cam was installed with sound and IR. Great views!

2 eggs were laid
2/18 @ 3:13pm
2/21 @ 4:15pm

Hatch
3/28 #1 egg (?) 39 days H3
egg # 2 did not hatch

3/30 eaglet passed away
After about 91 days the egg finally was destroyed.
May 31st part of the nest collapsed.


* Cam on -- End of December
STATS FOR 2017 Season 3

* 2 Eggs laid --
Egg #1 - Feb. 10th, 5:46PM
Egg #2 - Feb 13th, 5:13PM

* Eggs hatched --
Egg #1 - March 20th about 6:30 Am (Happy Spring!) H4
Egg #2 -March 21st about 12:36PM Smile H5

* Branched --

* Fledged -- -
H4 6/7/2017
H3 6/8/17

* Last seen --
Cams turned off 7/11/17


STATS FOR 2018 Season 4 ---

CAMS ON - JANUARY 5, 2018

*Egg # 1 2/20
Egg #2 2/23

***EGGS DESTROYED AFTER BEING LEFT UNATTENDED DURING A SNOW EVENT AND NEST TAKE OVER BY A FEMALE INTRUDER

*Eggs hatched --- XX

*Branched --- XX

*Fledged --- XX

* Last seen --- XX

Cams turned off --- May 4, 2018
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STATS FOR SEASON 5

Egg #1 2/26 @ 5:07pm
Egg# 2 3/1 @ 6:23pm

Eggs Hatched.... Egg #1 4/4 Day 36 H6 (Stars)
... Egg #2 4/6 Day 35 H7 (Stripes)


Branched......

Fledged......6/18 Stars fludged/knocked off nest (75 days) 6/23 came back to nest (80 days), 6/30 Stripes fledged on its own (85 days)
Big nest collapse on left side on 8/2/19 both were on the nest

Last seen on cam.....August 6, 2019

Cams turned off.... August 7, 2019
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Post by photofun » Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:56 am

Watching the eagles is fun but sometimes it is hard to tell which one is which. Obviously the one that lays the egg is the female but after that it get hard to tell. Here are a few indicators to help you identify them. Even then it sometimes is hard. Females generally brood the eggs and eaglets over night. Our nest here is no different.

Dad or Freedom has a notch in his neck line, can be seen most of the time but not always. At the moment one of his center tail feathers is shorter causing a nice little indent in the tail arrangement. His wing tips or the primaries are shorter then Mom's and when crossed on the back do not extend to the tail
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Mom or Liberty is larger as most females are. Her neckline can look straight but it has a little rise in the middle. Her wing tips almost touch the end of her tail and she doesn't always cross them.
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Liberty and Freedom
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Current Pictures of Freedom and Liberty's neck line for 2019

Freedom
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Liberty
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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by photofun » Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:56 am

The Hanover cams Return TOmorrow!
Hanover GO LIVE DATE & TIME:
Monday, December 3rd at 12:00PM Eastern Standard Time

Hello Hanover Fans -

We are so excited to share the Hanover Eagle Nest Cameras with you tomorrow! This email will tell you How To See The Cams At Go-Live, Where To See The Cams, and How To Prepare For The Best Viewing Experience.

We can't wait to go live with you tomorrow!
Happy viewing, HDOnTap

How to see the live cameras
The live cameras will be available beginning at 12PM Eastern. You will need to refresh your browser to see the cameras if you are already on the page. If you do not see the cameras, we recommend performing a cache refresh - see instructions for your browser here.

Live Camera Pages
There are three viewing pages for Hanover:

Hanover Multicam Page
Comments: HDOnTap and Hawk Mountain will post announcements which users may comment on

Hanover POV Page
Comments: Open to all

Hanover IR Page
Comments: Open to all

While there are three Hanover pages, you will be able to view all three cameras on each of them thanks to our Multicam Player. To use the Multicam player, (1) click "Other Views" in the control bar, then (2) select the thumbnail of the camera you would like to play:
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In addition, all information, history, time-lapses, and the clip gallery are available on all pages under the player. Time-lapse is only available for the POV and IR cams at this time
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As in previous seasons, comments will be more heavily moderated once the cameras go live. We encourage you to review our Community Guidelines, which can be found on the camera pages.

how to prepare for the best viewing experience
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If you are experiencing issues, clear your browser data.

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Get suggestions for troubleshooting buffering here.

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The Hanover Bald Eagle Nest Cams are provided in collaboration with Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, a global leader in raptor conservation science and education, and Comcast Business, which is providing the Internet connectivity for the live broadcast.

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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by photofun » Sat Dec 01, 2018 5:57 am

Saturday December 1, 2018

Clip from yesterday Nov. 30 of Liberty and Freedom doing a little nestorations before the cam goes live on Monday

https://youtu.be/aGCWbUFxOTk
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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by IrishEyes » Sat Dec 01, 2018 6:06 am

Good Morinng Lynne ! ..this is so exciting and looking forward to a successful season on this nest ! :)
Love the video! They were busy ...... Nice flyins :love:
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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by Ferenz » Sat Dec 01, 2018 6:40 am

Great video, thanks photofun. I'm looking for the Live stream -> :thumlft:

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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by Philjo56France » Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:15 pm

Good morning everyone, Bonjour Lynne, Bev, Ferenz
only one thing to do now, :luck: for a better 2019 season than last one !!
:rh: E9: 7 yo / E14 :rh:
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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by photofun » Sun Dec 02, 2018 1:18 pm

Sunday Dec. 2, 2018

Bonjour and Hello Bev, Ferenz and Philjo! So nice to see everyone again. :luck: :luck: :luck: positive thoughts for our favorite eagle couple this season. The new cams should make it more exciting too. Tomorrow at noon!
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Post by Ferenz » Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:10 am

Bonjour Bev - photofun & Philjo >>> Count Down:

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Re: Hanover Pa. 2018/2019 Bald Eagle Cam

Post by photofun » Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:28 am

December 3, 2018 Day one of new cams streaming live!

As promised at noon the cams went live, I think, it took me about an hour to get one to come on. Lots of buffering. I was only able to get two of the tree to come on. The 4K is still a mystery to me as I write this.
Beautiful clear photos from both cams.

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Will keep trying to get that third cam to come live.

Finally I tried Chrome, I ususally always use Firefox and on Chrome the 4K cam came up
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Post by Ferenz » Mon Dec 03, 2018 1:11 pm

Me too >> tried Opera, Firefox, Tor browser in vain
but got the snap with a buffering stream on Chrome
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