Hawkwatch at the Franklin Institute

Since 2009, there has been a Red-tailed hawk nest on a window ledge at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. A live-feed camera allows thousands of people in the USA and around the world to watch the eggs hatch, and then observe the feeding and care of the young hawks until they fledge in mid June. Despite losing two mates, T1 and T2, to accidents, the female, Mom, has remained in the area, and there are high hopes that she and her new partner, T3, will nest together in 2015. Della Micah

Thursday, February 28, 2013

The nest cam at the Franklin Institute is up and running!

Many, many thanks to the staff at the Franklin Institute for getting the camera running so quickly. I am sure that at the beginning of this week, like us, they were thinking maybe there would be no need for the nest cam this year.

Here's the link for this Ustream feed:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-franklin-institute-haw-cam

And here what's showing right now... that grid pattern is a window reflection of the heating vent on the inside window ledge. The FI will be putting a black cover on it to hide the reflection.

I'm working on a longer post with lots more great pictures from the hawkstalkers of all the action from yesterday and today, but wanted you to have the camera info ASAP.