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Montana Osprey Cam is back! (1 Viewer)

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:-C After lightning hit our camera last season, we had a very limited viewing time of our osprey (no birds where hurt during the incident).

We are back for the season!!

http://montanaospreycam.com/

We fixed the issue and the camera is back online!!! However, in true Murphy's Law fashion, there is a Canada Goose on the nest instead of an osprey. :-O

The osprey are staying in the area and look like they are going to wait out the goose. The goose already has eggs on the nest, so she will hopefully hatch her young in time for the osprey to get in there and do their thing.

Please come visit our free site where you can control the camera view and zoom yourself!

Cheers! B :)

Tracy
 
Great to see it up and running.

Its typical birds though...we have 2 nestboxes one with a camera and one without...guess which one they have decided to use.
 
MontanaOspreyCam said:
lol....what kind of birds do you have nesting in the box?
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It is actually Blue Tits http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blue_Tit
We hope they are going to nest as the past 2 days all we have heard through the window is her taking chippings out the wood in the box...I think she has a hammer as it is so loud. Maybe it is doing morse code messages to the male one outside.

On the fence at the far end of the garden between some Ivy and an Apple tree we already have a Blackbird that is sitting on her eggs, she chose quite an open place that the cats seemed to hang around but in the week or so that she has been there the tree has started flowering and the ivy has grown so she is quite well hid.
http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Eurasian_Blackbird
 
Montana webcam

What a splendid webcam. Great that we can manipulate it ourselves.
I'll definitely bookmark this one!! Hope, of course, that ospreys do get their turn using this nest.
June

MontanaOspreyCam said:
:-C After lightning hit our camera last season, we had a very limited viewing time of our osprey (no birds where hurt during the incident).

We are back for the season!!

http://montanaospreycam.com/

We fixed the issue and the camera is back online!!! However, in true Murphy's Law fashion, there is a Canada Goose on the nest instead of an osprey. :-O

The osprey are staying in the area and look like they are going to wait out the goose. The goose already has eggs on the nest, so she will hopefully hatch her young in time for the osprey to get in there and do their thing.

Please come visit our free site where you can control the camera view and zoom yourself!

Cheers! B :)

Tracy
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Tiger_mz said:
So is dad looking after the chicks?
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The 2 goslings that jumped out yesterday are either with dad or another goose family. The whole time mom was incubating, dad was guarding the nest.

She will sit on the remaining eggs for a few more days waiting for them to hatch and leaves every once in a while to check on the other two babies.

If they aren't with dad, they can either be with another family (like a babysitter) or hidden in the reeds for her to come back and get them.

I posted some clips on youtube.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf6msN582ag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avT_FZ0TjE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wn9XD9_oNo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kMQKJGSNEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2yqn4olEQ

Enjoy!!

Tracy
 
MontanaOspreyCam said:
The 2 goslings that jumped out yesterday are either with dad or another goose family. The whole time mom was incubating, dad was guarding the nest.

She will sit on the remaining eggs for a few more days waiting for them to hatch and leaves every once in a while to check on the other two babies.

If they aren't with dad, they can either be with another family (like a babysitter) or hidden in the reeds for her to come back and get them.

I posted some clips on youtube.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf6msN582ag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avT_FZ0TjE4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wn9XD9_oNo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kMQKJGSNEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2yqn4olEQ

Enjoy!!

Tracy
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Thank you. Those are just wonderful.
 
The goose is gone!!

She left the remaining eggs and we removed them after she abandoned them.

Keep your fingers crossed for the return of the ospreys!!!!
 
The osprey has been checking out the nest this morning!!! :)

He looks to be doing an odd dance, but I think he might be checking out the vantage points and defending the nest. The male goose was probably beating him up a lot to keep him from the nest before so he is still a little wary.....hope they stay! :)
 
We have decided to change the live feed on the osprey cam website because the osprey did not return. We plan to leave the camera on the nest so we can get them next year, but the live feed on the website has been changed to one of our other bird cameras.

Anyone want to take a guess what we are looking at?? :)
 
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