Stream stopped. Failed nesting this year!

Hi All, very sorry for the delayed response on the forum...some miscommunication on our end and I was away for a few days.

Yes, we have stopped the stream of this cam due to limited bandwidth capacity and the fact that the ospreys have failed in their nesting attempt. At this late date in the year it is extremely unlikely that these birds will renest. This, despite observations of birds using the nest and even mating attempts.

As for the camera, it is still installed and we hope that ospreys continue to use it successfully in the future. We are also looking into the possiblity of an additional Ospreycam with audio. Unfortunately, this site doe not present a good chance for audio due to ambient background noise and nearby activity.

All the Best,
Patrick Keenan
BioDiversity Research Institute

Chick Death!

Hi All, I am very sorry to report that the chick that hatched seems to have died. We await a second hatch any day and time is running out at the egg was laid 41 days ago! It is important to recognize just how delicate young birds are following hatching. With the inability to thermoregulate cool, wet weather can be the critical problem for survival at an early age. That is just what this chick faced as Maine has experienced about ten days of rain! Have a wonderful day and lets hope the second egg hatches!
All the Best,
Patrick Keenan
BioDiversity Research Institute

Ospreys are incubating!

Hi all,

It is wonderful to see this pair incubating two eggs! Ospreys typically lay between 1-4 eggs per clutch. You may notice that the male and female birds share time incubating. Based on an 'average' 38-39 day incubation period we anticipate a hatch around June 5th but we should keep a close eye on the nest in the days before then as we might expect a hatch as early as June 1st! Thank you for your many posts and please join us at our online community at www.briloon.ning.com where you can view photos and videos and catch up on all of BRI's nests.

Have a great day!
Best,
Patrick Keenan
BioDiversity Research Institute

Ospreys lay and egg April 27, 2009

Great news, after a very warm weekend the Ospreys have laid an egg. Check Out Wing's video blog at to learn more about Ospreys and what we might expect!
Have a great day.
All the Best,
Patrick Keenan
BioDiversity Research Institute

May 17 Update

Well there is some good news, I suppose, which is that we put in a piece of equipment that took away the interference we were getting--the wavy lines. But the bad news is that it would appear that the birds will not nest this year. I am working on another osprey cam on a nest where the birds are nesting. If we are lucky we may get that online next week.

Osprey around the coast of Maine are on nest, and if the birds do not nest within the next week or so then I think it is fair to say that they will not nest this year. I think this is a great site for this cam and we owe a huge thanks to the Taste of Maine Restaurant and hopefully the birds will nest next year!

Wing Goodale

BioDiversity Research Institute

Cam Now Live

Greetings!

This my first post on our new osprey cam blog. The camera is located at the Taste of Maine Restaurant in Woolwich, Maine. If you are passing by on route one stop by and see the birds on a 42 inch plasma TV, have a bite to eat, and see the nest in person. This cam has no sound (we hope add sound next year), but the nest can been watched at night. At the moment there is a little interference in the image which we hope to fix in the next day or so.

Kids in the Nest generously provided us with the equipment for this camera. A huge thank you to them!

Last year the birds nested and hatched out one chick. Unfortunately the females was injured last year and taken with her chick to Chewonki to be rehabilitated. They were both successfully released. This year both the male and female are back and have been seen regularly at the nest site. Although the disruption last year can lead birds to take a year off or cause a mate switch, there still is a very good opportunity for the birds to nest.

Please comment on if you see the birds.

Wing Goodale

BioDiversity Research Institute