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February 21, 2011: The nest just went on line, and of course I wasn’t watching when the eagles were actually in the nest. Here's the story: One of the eagles was monitoring the rush-hour traffic. Suddenly, he flew off to ticket a speeder. ;) You can see him in the upper left hand corner of the video The nest is located community located on a peninsula in the southwestern corner of the Corporation of Delta, British Columbia, Canada, near the Tsawwassen Ferry. From the Hancock website: "This was originally a red tail hawk nest, rebuilt by bald eagles in 1998-99. Then when the eagle nest was disturbed by a youngster climbing the tree, it was abandoned. The adult eagles moved, to be the first local pair to nest on a nearby high tension power line. The red tails re-occupied the site for a couple of years until they were attacked by the eagles which have, as of the 2010 season, again rebuilt the nest and produced two young that season. This is a super large tree with strong branches and should serve as a nest for many years to come. We had installed two cams in 2006 but, when no red tails or eagles used the nest in 2007 or 2008, we removed the cams for placement in Delta OWL. Last Autumn (2010 season end) we again installed two cameras. One of the cameras, the controllable one (PTZ), has subsequently lost its control interface, likely due to some poor weather we had recently, and is aimed poorly. The other however is aimed directly at the nest and we present this camera to you ...
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