Eagle Cam Changes

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If you click through on the Eagle Cam, you will get a new message from the Eagle Eye site.  The explanation for the change is here, in an e-mail from our Hornby Island Eagle watcher, Doug Carrick:

The web-cam on the Hornby Island Eagles has now been shut down and will not likely be renewed next season.  A new family of eagles with chicks has now been found in Saanich (near Victoria) and a web-cam will be set up there by Wednesday.

However, the video camera on the nest is still working and transmitting pictures and sound to the TV in our house.  The eagles are no longer landing in the nest but are still around.  We often see them and hear their voices.  Eagles do not sleep in their nests and seldom eat there.  Nests are primarily for eggs and chicks.

They will remain in the area (their territory) until mid-August, then migrate north to salmon rivers along with all the other eagles and newly fledged eaglets.  On the first of October they will return to begin another reproductive cycle - which at their age, may not be successful - but they will try, and who knows, may produce one more chick before they die.

Their lives have been far better than most eagles.  They have lived 23 years.  They have fledged 15 eaglets - some of which may be the younger eagles successfully nesting in other trees on Hornby Island.

From time to time (anniversaries?) I will keep you informed so you can follow the lives of the Hornby Island Eagles in future years.                                    

Doug Carrick

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