Live Screech Owl camera stream from Austin Texas (Galveston, Center: 2014, landscaping)

[CptnRn]

I read about this in the Statesman a while back. A couple built a screech owl nesting box and put a video camera in it. The owls are nesting and have at least 3 babies that I could see. Pretty cool.

Screech Owl Cam - Austin on USTREAM: Live video inside a screech owl nesting box in Austin, TX. (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/screech-owl-cam---austin - broken link)

Live video inside a screech owl nesting box in Austin, TX. Ms. Owl laid 4 eggs, and the first egg hatched on 4/16/09 and the last one on 4/19. All 4 chicks appear to be growing well, though the smallest (youngest by a few days) may struggle. Mom and Dad bring food to the box, and Mom feeds bits to the chicks. Mom stays in the box with the chicks during the day. Most activity occurs after 8pmCT. We can expect the chicks to fledge and leave the nest in mid-May. Once they leave, they usually don't return to the box. See the video clips for the growth of the owlets. The camera is infrared in order to capture the images in the dark box, which is why the video is not in color. There is no light or sound that the camera emits so there is no disturbance to the owls.

http://www.statesman.com/search/content/sports/stories/outdoors/04/26/0426owls.html (broken link)

[AustinSpartan]

Riveting...

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

It was cool earlier to see them. Now the screen is black and people are talking about butts. What is with the chatter box next to it? What is twitter? Cute birds though.

[CptnRn]

Ohh I can hear them making their screech owl noises today.

I guess soom people like to chat while watching them. I am don't use twitter but you can read about it here Twitter: What are you doing? Its sort of like using Instant Messages to keep in contact with your friends.

[TMIgrad]

This is so cool.

[CptnRn]

I wonder where the owls will nest in the future, after all of the high density housing projects, multifamily zoning and low water use landscaping projects and renovations take over? Filling the landscape with structures and parking lots.

Where will the Monarch Butterfly find the milkweed plants it needs to survive? I am not a rabid conversationalist, but I do sometimes wonder if we consider any other species on this planet as important? I think Schreech Owls and Monarch Butterflies are IMPORTANT! Free Milk Weed Plant Seeds https://www.livemonarch.com/free-milkweed-seeds.htm



I wonder how the screech-owls babies are doing. I hope that is one of the babies I can hear outside of my window?

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

Thanks for the link.

The whole issue regarding our planet is generally political and most of us feel powerless to change anything.

Plus it isn't just housing projects...there are lot's of other structures built that displace nature:

Keystone Pipeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Why don't we put all the money it took into building that pipeline toward innovative energy use that doesn't consist of oil?


Oil Spill Threatens Galveston Bay's Fishing Industry | The Texas Tribune

Gulf Oil Spill "Not Over": Dolphins, Turtles Dying in Record Numbers

[G Grasshopper]

Right now there is a Great horned owl mom with two chicks in her usual next at the Wildflower Center. I just saw the three of them on Friday. You can see them without disturbing them. She has nested there for several years, so seems used to people standing below her place, and talking about her. Rather than describing completely where the location is, I will say that it is close to the gift shop, so if you ask there, they will tell/show you where the nest is.