Eagles and Eaglets and Busy

Over the past few weeks I've been again dealing with the huge influx of visitors and new members to the Hancock Wildlife Foundation web site - especially since their two main eagle nest cameras now have chicks in the nest.

Along with this, I'm in the midst of writing an e-book on how to do wildlife live streaming video. The number of such sites is growing, and from what I've seen it is again a case of people getting things to work despite not knowing the first thing about what they're doing. I'm running across systems where security companies have done the install the way they normally would, then expecting things to "just work" when making the hook to the internet - and of course it doesn't.

I'm also running across things like "nanny cams" being used on a bear den, in Winter. Stuff that just shouldn't work, at least not for long - and that present a hazard to both those installing it and to the critters they're watching.

The field is so new, there simply isn't any place that has all the basic information for those who luck into having an interesting critter nearby. The book will be released by Hancock Wildlife Foundation and proceeds will go to the foundation. Watch for it.