Author: Rick Cunningham

While Jim Siler managed the power feed from the ground, today Chris Steigelman and I changed out a fried Linux computer board and the camera housing power supply, added power line surge suppression and Ethernet lightning arresters, and improved the grounding up in the Eagle/Owl/RedTailedHawk’s nest above the Palmetto Golf Course on Skidaway Island. This easily beats any “E Ticket...

While we’re all waiting to see who finally signs the lease on this fabulous marsh-front nest, we thought you might like to see some of the other avian residents of our island. Some of our most talented photographers have provided some absolutely stunning images for us, and we’ve organized them into this growing Skidaway Island Bird Book. We’ve put a...

So there’s been lots of activity at the eagle’s nest. Apparently they haven’t signed the lease yet, so a pair of great horned owls (GHO’s) have been there most nights making the nest nice and cozy for themselves. It’s very interesting to see the way they burrow down and then apparently plant their face on one side of the indentation...

So back about a week ago (Oct 30) a pair of great horned owls began visiting the nest. This is a video captured by our partners at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology showing one owl arriving with a bird, and then passing it over to a second owl as it arrives. The second owl makes short work of the meal. Click the link...

So here’s the culprit. A great horned owl seems to have his eye on the nest. This was on October 29, the first night we saw him hanging around the nest. It’s a good thing that Chris and Phil got the infrared illumination up and working again with their ascent a couple of weeks ago. Our partners at Cornell Lab...

Our coastal Georgia environment has been called “one of the great birding destinations of North America.” Here at The Landings on Skidaway Island, near Savannah, 250 species have been recorded, with 175-185 regularly occurring. The bald eagle is listed with a “U” for uncommon – “not always present when and where expected.”

Dispatch from Beth Roth: Today the Eagle nest survived a “wind test”.The nest appears to be unaltered. The concern is that this tree is dying but it has been able to withstand a lot of the elements for many years…maybe losing a little here and there. Jim Ozier of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources expects that the trunk and...

Here’s how to install an Eagle Cam in just over a minute. Thanks to Tim Sears from HD on Tap Del Mar, CA “the rock star” of camera installers for setting up a time lapse camera to capture much of the initial installation on July 16. And thanks again to Southside Fire and EMS for the generous loan of their ladder truck and their crew.