Online cuties: More baby birds!
PA Game Commission's bluebird box cam shows two have hatched, three more eggs to go
They can hardly lift their little heads. Mostly, they lie there, breathing heavily and squirming.
The two hatchling bluebirds in the nest that the Pennsylvania Game Commission has on a live video stream have just come into the world. Three more eggs are still to go.
Every now and then an adult comes in to the next box and more or less obscures the view with feathers. But the action is sure to increase in coming days, as the little ones grow and start to get more insistent on being fed.
So it's another view of the ongoing springtime saga of birth ... and humans getting addicted to watching them. Wildlife web cams are booming, and nesting birds make good subjects because they stay in one spot.
Launched in 2009, the bluebird camera was the agency's first foray into the arena of live nest cams. It provides a color, infrared video feed. And, unlike most, it also includes audio. I couldn't hear anything just now, but I'm betting those little guys will get noisy soon!
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Speaking of which ... the red-tailed hawks on a ledge of the Franklin Institute are thriving. The third chick hatched on April 25, and as of a few minutes ago 422 people were tuned in to the fluffy youngsters on a live stream.
Looks like just one youngster for the peregrine falcon nest atop the Rachel Carson building, home to the offices of the Department of Environmental Protection in Harrisburg. Its website is here.