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Hummingbird Nest Cam Live Streaming HD Video
Hummingbird Nest Cam
Watch her sitting there on an egg in live video.
Phoebe is a Channel Island Allen (S.s. sedentarius) hummingbird in Orange County, California.
I love all this technology that makes this possible. Who would have thought this would be possible 15 years ago.
Viaduct Helicopter Crash in Auckland New Zealand
Greg Gibble Helicopter Pilot
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says it is amazing no one was seriously hurt when a helicopter crashed on Auckland’s waterfront this morning.
The helicopter was working to put up the city’s Telecom Christmas tree, when it appeared to clip a wire and spin out of control.
“It’s extraordinary that the people at the accident site actually suffered little or no injury,” CAA Safety Inspector Steve Walker said from the scene this afternoon.
Greg Gribble, of Auckland firm Helisika Helicopters, was able to walk away from the crash at 10.30am with only minor injuries. He was now recovering at home after being discharged from Auckland City Hospital shortly after midday.
Walker said it was not clear… Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving 2011 To All My Site Visitors!
Hope everyone is having an enjoyable Thanksgiving Day.
I just pigged down a huge plate of turkey with all the fixings.. Waiting to digest some of it so i can devour a few slices of pumpkin and pecan pie. Yummmm!
Doing a few updates to this website, and experimenting with self streaming flash (flv) video. The below video was uploaded to my WordPress media archive along with a simple splash file. I am using a WordPress plugin called Grand FLA Gallery V-1.56 which also handles photos pretty well.
Streaming Video can seriously eat up your bandwidth and system resources in a flash! I am also using a streaming flash video server called XmoovStream by Eric Benjamin Lorenzo. The website has… Continue reading
African Penguins California Academy of Sciences Live Webcams
African Penguins Live Webcam
Check out an intimate view of the California Academy of Science’s live African penguin exhibit. Watch the birds swim, dive, flirt, nest and relax from any one of three live webcams. Listen in as Academy biologists answer questions from visitors during meal time, daily at 10:30am and 3:00pm PST.
The Academy participates in the American Zoo and Aquarium Association’s Species Survival Program for African penguins, aimed at conserving this species in the wild. In 2010, the International Union for Conservation of Nature classified the species as endangered, or at very high risk of extinction in the wild. African penguin populations are threatened by competition with commercial fishing operations, guano removal, oil spills, and predation by feral… Continue reading
The Open Sea in HD – Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Video
The Open Sea in HD – Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Video
The Open Sea exhibit is a mysterious, mesmerizing world where life looms large. The stunning one-million-gallon exhibit is home to one of the most diverse communities of open-ocean animals to be found in any aquarium. Giant bluefin tuna power their way through the water, while hammerhead sharks, pelagic rays and giant green sea turtles swim just inches away.
The mission of the non-profit Monterey Bay Aquarium is to inspire conservation of the oceans. Located at the ocean’s edge, the Aquarium is your window to marine life, home to sea otters, penguins, sharks, jellies, and thousands of other marine animals and plants.
Visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium Website HERE.
Winter the Dolphin Webcam Live Video From Clearwater Fla
Winter the Dolphin Live Webcam
A live broadcast of one of Clearwater Marine Aquarium’s resident dolphins, including Winter the Dolphin and Panama, her adoptive mother.
Based on the movie Dolphin Tale, Winter is the star of the movie and actually plays herself!
This feed is frequently down, or is showing a pre-recorded clip. But you can CLICK HERE to try this alternate feed from Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Link opens in a new browser window.
NOTE: The ads are from Ustream Network. The live video feed should start after the advertisement ends.
Pete’s Pond Streaming Wildlife Cam From Botswana Africa
Pete’s Pond on Mashatu
Pete’s Pond is a waterhole on Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana, Africa. It is a famous webcam that began on National Geographic’s wildcam and is now hosted and operated by WildEarth.
The camera is mounted overlooking the waterhole along with a microphone and floodlights that switch on automatically at night.
A great variety of wildlife will come to drink at the pond including herds of elephant, eland, impala, lions, warthogs, baboons and many more.
Stick around and watch for a while, you are sure to become a ‘pondie’.
Woodland Park Zoo Bear Cam – Live Streaming HD Video
Woodland Park Zoo Bear Cam
Woodland Park Zoo’s Bear Cam features brother bears, Keema and Denali, in the award-winning Northern Trail exhibit at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo.
Woodland Park Zoo’s two grizzly bears are brothers named Keema and Denali and are 17 years old (2011).
The brothers arrived here from Washington State University in 1994. WSU maintains a small population of grizzlies in order to conduct long-term studies on bear nutrition.
Various artificial elements including rockwork, a stream and deep pool that maintains 20-30 live trout, many that have lived in the pool for several years. The bears actively “fish” for the trout, occasionally teaming up to corral and capture the trout.
The bears are “scatter-fed” throughout the day —… Continue reading
Behind The Scenes Video at Tampa International Airport (TPA)
Chris Chmura Fox 13 Tampa Bay
This is an interesting video tour behind the scene of a busy major airport. Video sharing and article courtesy of Fox 13 News Tampa Bay Fla.
TAMPA – Tampa International Airport is renowned as one of the world’s best airports, an around-the-clock operation that shuffles more than a million passengers a month.
FOX 13 was recently granted unprecedented access to the airport. We took cameras places they are usually prohibited and shadowed some of the airport’s 7,500 employees. “Lot of planes, lot of trouble, lot of traffic,” said Southwest Airlines veteran Bill Brown. “Nobody gets to see what’s behind the scenes like you do.”
What struck us was the amount of work taking place… Continue reading
Veterans Day 2011 – I Thank All Of You For Your Service!
America Is Still The Best Country!
National Veterans Day Ceremony
Friday November the 11th 2011 is Veterans Day in America.
Please take the time to visit a VA National Cemetery nearest to you to pay tribute to our fallen hero’s!
The Veterans Day National Ceremony is held each year on November 11th at Arlington National Cemetery . The ceremony commences precisely at 11:00 a.m. with a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns and continues inside the Memorial Amphitheater with a parade of colors by veterans’ organizations and remarks from dignitaries. The ceremony is intended to honor and thank all who served in the United States Armed Forces.
The Veterans Day National Committee also selects a number of regional… Continue reading
Knockoff Chinese Counterfeit Parts in U.S. Military Aircraft
Lockheed Martin Corp. C-130J Airplane
Dozens of suspected counterfeit parts have been installed on U.S. defense equipment from Raytheon Co. (RTN), L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL) and Boeing Co. (BA), including aircraft deployed to Afghanistan.
The Senate Armed Services Committee found counterfeit parts — usually from China — on at least seven aircraft, including the Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) C-130J transport plane, Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and L-3 27J Spartan transport.
“Suspect electronic parts from China were installed on military systems and subsystems that were manufactured by Raytheon Co., L-3 Communications and Boeing,” said a memo from the committee’s staff, released yesterday before a hearing today.
“There is a flood of counterfeits and it is putting our military men… Continue reading
Received My Unthink.com Invite Code But Can’t Connect!
Unthink Logo
Wonder whats going on with the Facebook Killer www.unthink.com?
After a long wait I finally received my invite code yesterday morning, and like a little kid at Christmas i couldn’t wait to sign up. But i couldn’t connect to the site after trying most of yesterday. No error message, just the server timed out waiting to connect.
I tried it several times today and still couldn’t get on. Now i just got a Site Overloaded plain text message in my browser.
It must be the server resources are unable to handle the number of people trying to register. I can just imagine how many folks have been waiting for their invite code, I have been waiting a… Continue reading
Decorah Eagles Are Getting Ready For Next Hatching Season
This is a young pair of Eagles that have staked their claim on Raptor Research Projects eagles nest in Decorah Iowa.
We will have another group of baby’s to watch growing up soon!
I first noticed they were sprucing up the nest last month and took a few screen grabs for our photo album. I always managed to look at the live stream when they were not there, then yesterday i got to see the nests new inhabitants.
Anyway here is the enhanced live feed from the nest. I set up a larger page without a sidebar to increase the video size. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.
Here are a few still shots below. I… Continue reading
