Author: Rick Cunningham

You should notice that the camera menu above the main video window has changed. There are now entries for the view from Cams 1 & 2, DVR’s for Cams 1 & 2 and Time-Lapse Videos for Cams 1 & 2. Please let us know if there are any problems with this new capability!   Cam1 Cam2 Cam1 DVR Cam2 DVR Cam1 TL Cam2 TL...

This little ball of fluff showed up this morning, but we don’t really know yet when it actually hatched. Maybe some of the archived video will tell us! You can look back up to four hours at this test page.

In this short video, we get a good look at Mom taking a food break about 2:30 am on Wednesday February 24, a day we hope will come to be known as HatchDay for owlet number one. We don’t see the pip in this video, but saw it clearly in still shots later in the morning, about 5:30. In this video,...

Mom went out for a bite at 5:30 giving us a good look at the eggs. This little owlet has been working on breaking through it’s shell for some time now, but it looks like there’s a definite pip now. There’s still a LOT of work to do to break through the shell, and we won’t declare the chick hatched until...

At 5:14 PM on February 23 Mary Lambright was on camera duty and saw Mom leave the nest – she zoomed in on the eggs and thought she saw several places where the owlet had begun to crack the egg. Is one of these cracks completely broken through? “Pipping” is when the chick starts breaking through its shell using a hard...

  Mom’s waiting and so are we! When will our first owlet emerge from the egg? Head over to our education page and take a look at the data from last year, and then compare it with this year’s dates. If you can guess the date and time, Guess the Owl Hatch Date 2016 you can win a spiffy stadium blanket from...

Early on the morning of Thursday Feb 18, Dad shows up on the nest with a much-appreciated treat for Mom. We hear a lot of the squawk “I’m Hungry” vocalizations from Mom, and a few quiet hooting vocalizations from Dad. We’re going to be going on “Pip Watch” soon. The owlet inside egg #1 might start to try to break...

Mom’s faithfully guarding the eggs and keeping them warm with her brood patch. Here she is seen having just rolled the eggs to move the chicks around in the shell and give them room to develop properly, Teachers, check out our Education Page where you can view our growing trove of educational information and links and sign up to put your class...

In this video from 6:05 am Jan 23, you can just see the female Great Horned Owl on a branch of an adjacent tree – as the wind blows, watch for one of her eyes reflecting the infrared light. She takes off from there and lands in the nest actually being blown backwards to a landing. We’ve said this just...