Saturday, April 30, 2011

Wild for Wildlife

I love animals. I love watching animals. I feel so blessed to be living in the time where web cams can be used to watch various animals in their natural habitat.

On of my favorite live web cams to watch is at the North American Bear Center in Ely, Minnesota. During the winter and early spring there were two web cams:  one in Lily's den (where we were able to watch her and yearling Hope as well as the birth of Jason and Faith - the cubs born in 2011) and a den at the NABC where the two of the resident bears (Lucky and Ted) spent their winter. Now that the bears have left the dens the "Pond Cam" at the NABC is up and running.

 
Live TV : Ustream

Within the last few days the Minnesota Bound Loon Cam has been activated! The Loon Cam is at the nest of a common loon family in central Minnesota. It has been exciting to be able to watch the eggs being laid and the hatching. Last year neither egg hatched (not that momma and daddy Loon didn't try) so we hope this year there will be success. as of this writing no eggs have been laid yet and I suspect momma is out celebrating her freedom one last time. Click here to get to the Minnesota Bound Loon Cam. 

Here is a video from last year just to get an idea of what you can see.


Here is the Decorah (Iowa) Bald Eagle nest cam:

Live Broadcasting by Ustream

If you are wanting to check out some of the various web cams you can check out UStream's Pet & Animal category page. You name it they probably have it....even baby owls which are possibly the ugliest little creatures as newborns.