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Mal Welch was watching the feed this morning and at about 6:25 am when she saw the Owl leave the nest, presumably to feed. While Mom may have been very near, or her mate might have, she didn’t return for 22 minutes. It wasn’t that cold this morning (around 45 degrees) and apparently this behavior is quite normal. Nonetheless, it’s disconcerting if...

The Washington Times picked up the following article from the AP feed, authored by Savannah Morning News’ Mary Landers. Click here to read the article.      

An Alberta Clipper system is sweeping across the northwest to the northeast, bringing single digit temperatures to much of the country. While our weather is going to be much warmer than that, this is our first seriously cold night here in Savannah Georgia. It’s currently about 26 degrees headed to 22 degrees, and the winds are over 20 knots. Our...

Our pair of Great Horned Owls have been at the nest every night for a couple of weeks now, and the female was on the nest all day on 12/31. We thought she’d produced an egg, but she left in mid-afternoon with no egg in the nest. Then she returned in the middle of the night and hasn’t left since. At...

Christmas day at 6:11 PM One of the GHOs testing their handiwork in shaping the nesting space. Seems to fit just fine! Will edit and post some video shortly.    

After we repaired the camera on the 15th, the next morning our friend Tim Sears, monitoring from California, noticed the GHOs on the nest. It was just about dawn on our coast, and OhDarkThirty out there. Since he was watching in real time, he could manually zoom-in with the camera so this is some of the best footage of these guys.

After spending yesterday morning repairing the lightning damage to the Eagle Cam, we were very happy to find that the birds are indeed spending time in the nest. The fact that they are Great Horned Owls instead of our Bald Eagles is a continuing point of debate; Has our eagle lost it’s mate? And is it spending all it’s time...

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...