On the east coast of Iowa, just south of that part of the West Coast of Wisconsin where I live, an extremely popular webcam is aimed at the nest of a pair of American Bald Eagles. How popular is the webcam? Well, when I took my first look at it, during the first quarter of the NCAA basketball championship game, over 104,000 people were watching (or also watching - as the case may be) the nest.
Those watching the nest longer than me would have had the opportunity to see the first of three eggs laid on February 23rd and the first eaglet hatched on April 1st. The webcam is visible 24 hours a day. During hours of darkness, everything is almost as clear as during the day due to an infrared light (which is not visible to the eagles) illuminating the scene for the camera at night. Viewing the webcam has been so popular the amount of traffic actually crashed the system for about two hours on Saturday when the first eaglet hatched.
The camera is operated by the Raptor Resource Project. To view the cam and see a live episode of Wild Kingdom along West Coast Wisconsin, follow this link: http://raptorresource.org/falcon_cams/index.html
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