A local security company has established this link to an osprey camera: http://www.atlanticsecurityinc.com/video.htm. The views of the ospreys are interesting, since they are real-time and continuous. Enjoy those huge, beautiful chicks!:)
Norm

A local security company has established this link to an osprey camera: http://www.atlanticsecurityinc.com/video.htm. The views of the ospreys are interesting, since they are real-time and continuous. Enjoy those huge, beautiful chicks!:)
Norm
Wow, truely amazing
TFS
Thanks Norm Might be the best I've seen as far as quality, speed etc !! ... opened a window on the corner of the screen to keep up with them :)
On the same note I heard a story about this osprey "Lady" in Scotland. She has reared something like 48 chicks. She has a new mate as last years' did not return. Apparently she was sick and Dad stepped in and fed the chicks while she sat in the nest with her eyes closed. She is a little better and has started feeding the chicks again.
Here are the latest updates and webcam. They are not sure if "Lady" will make it back next year.http://www.thewebbroadcastingcorporation.com/swt/swt.php

Here are a few thoughts on the osprey family captured by the Atlantic Security camera, and the area where I live. The camera's lens, which appears to be a fish-eye lens (most appropriate for photographing fish hawks!:)) shows something of Maryland's Eastern shore. Its a place of tranquil farms and numerous creeks that are connected by tidal flow to the Chesapeake Bay. These creeks are beautiful, and a haven for boating, crabbing, fishing and water sports.
The creek where the camera osprey family is located is Langford Creek, where we frequently boat with our cameras. By our most recent count, there were about 27 osprey platforms on Langford Creek alone, most of which had tenants. And there are hundreds more such nesting platforms in the area, showing that Maryland welcomes osprey families and other wildlife with open arms. In fact, the seemingly indignant osprey chick that I use as my BPN avatar was photographed last year very near the Atlantic Security camera platform.
From the 20 acres where we live, we see dozens of purple martins; kingfishers, indigo buntings, Northern cardinals, many wren and sparrow species, tree and barn swallows, tufted titmice, various flycatchers, juncos, red bellied, pileated and downy woodpeckers, bluebirds, red-tailed hawks, bald eagles, ospreys, and orchard and Baltimore orioles and other bird species.
In the winter, Fairlee Creek by our home shelters and feeds dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of tundra (aka whistling) swans that migrate here from the North slope of Alaska and the upper reaches of Canada. In fact, the part of the creek immediately adjacent to our home has enjoyed the presence of a family of rare trumpeter swans for a number of years. And this is the only place in the entirety of Maryland's Eastern shore where such swans have been seen!
Linda and I have seen more than a hundred species of birds from our property. And that does not include numerous raptor, warbler and other bird species that migrate through here every year that we cannot identify.
So when Linda and I travel in pursuit of wildlife subjects to capture with our cameras, we often wonder why we left the remarkable area that is the Eastern shore of Maryland!:)
There can be a wealth of birds in your own back yard too. Please look carefully, and have your cameras ready!
Norm
Hi Norm Can only imagine your backyard !!! ... btw had mine ready last night when I came in and caught a pigeon sleeping on top of the fake owl :) .. with my cell phone. Will check to post :)