Molly the owl on Ustream.

Ustream has many things to offer such as live games for the sports fans, live radio shows, music and more. But my favorite thing about Ustream is its selection of live nature videos. Outdoors cams for those rare wildlife sightings, cams with horses ready to foal, egg hatching, puppy and kitten play pens and more. Along with a built in chat feature to discuss what you are seeing with fellow watchers. Or... just chat about similar (yet off topic) interests while you watch!

A man by the name of Carlos royal (carlosroyal for online username and the rest of the "royal" family) has been sharing his love of nature and travel with us for a while now, but was just recently featured on Burdr.com for his barn owl nest cam.

You can see the barn owl, Molly, on her nest 24/7 here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-owl-box

Her mate, McGee brings her food int he night. Molly is sitting on 5 eggs that are due to hatch tomorrow or any day now.

For more of carlosroyal's theowlbox bird-related photographs and information, you can visit:

http://www.theowlbox.blogspot.com/

His website is here:

http://carlosroyal.com/

And it has many things to offer. Travel photos, birding, real estate information (along with being able to buy a copy of his real estate book, ALL proceeds go towards Molly the owl), portraits, his schooling and so much more.

I will be watching Molly on and off all day and night taking part int he chat room. If you see a user by the name of Honeybird, that's me! Unfortunately you have to register to be able to discuss the video but it's well worth the 2 minutes it takes to sign up. Though watching the video is free.

See you there! Happy owlet watching!

Ever wondered how to wash your pet pelican?

Of course you have!

Thanks to Burdr.com, here is a video on how.

http://www.burdr.com/2010/02/how-to-wash-a-california-brown-pelican/

Also thanks to the IBRRC (International Bird Rescue Research Center) and special thanks to Dawn for helping us save wildlife for over 30 years.

New York birders!

For any of you who might be birders and are lucky enough to live in the Big Apple, here are two websites that might be of interest to you.

The first is:

http://www.nycbirdreport.com/

A list is compiled of all the native, migratory and well... many many species of bird that have been (or not) spotted around the areas it listed. If you click on a location and then on a bird it will give you a sighting numbers along with the month sighted in. Unfortunately it seems to have not been updated since 2007, but at least you can get an idea of the sightings. Maybe if the website owner gets more traffic he/she will see people are interested.

The second is a fellow Blogspot blogger:

http://citybirder.blogspot.com/

This one is updated very frequently and is very informative. Rare bird alerts, sightings from trips and other wildlife and much more. It's a great website. Go check it out!

Hope this helped a little!

Mouth full of nom.

Didn't your mother ever teach you not to talk with your mouth full?

Enjoy some pictures of greedy little birds who bit off more than they can chew.

http://www.burdr.com/2009/12/dont-tweet-with-your-mouth-full/

Thanks to Burdr.com!

Flying frog? Stow-away? Free rider?

http://www.burdr.com/2010/01/frog-on-a-bird/

A man named Dennis Davenport caught these images of a Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) that appears to have some sort of frog nestled underneath the feathers of its wing. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? The frog seems to have made a mess of the feathers but aren't known to be parasitic.
A comment from the article reads:"When seeing these photos, I can’t help but wonder if the little Downy Woodpecker is okay."

"Dennis says:
It’s possible he is okay because he was jumping from weed to weed and weed to tree trunk with no trouble, and his head was jack-hammering like crazy to get what he wanted from the weeds."

Link to the Flickr gallery. Has an additional image:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsdavenport/4214866019/in/pool-burdr