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Wednesday, October 11 Update; What's gone on this week
Topic Started: Oct 11 2006, 05:59 PM (2,218 Views)
Eagle Guy
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Hello All,

Well, most of the birds have left Santa Cruz for the other islands. As of today, we are tracking 3 birds on San Miguel Island (A-55, A-59, and A-60), 14 on Santa Rosa (A-02, A-33, A-34, A-35, A-36, A-37, A-40, A-43, A-45, A-48, A-49, A-51, A-52, A-58), 4 on Santa Cruz (A-04, A-21, A-29, A-62), 1 in central California (A-53), and 2 in British Columbia (A-39, A-46). For reference, birds A00-11 were released in 2002, A12-21 in 2003, A22-33 in 2004, A34-45 in 2005, and A46-62 in 2006.

We had one camera out this week and caught a couple photos of A-62 and K-26. A-62 is the only bird from this year's releases that has remained on Santa Cruz.

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Here, A-62 defends its fish from approaching K-26 on the beach at Chinese Harbor.

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K-26 decides when and how to get the fish (which she eventually accomplished).

As you've seen, we have moved the camera to a new location and adjusted the camera settings. The camera view is now centered on the nest bowl so that we can zoom in and see eggs. Because the main portion of the view is now the bright sticks of the nest, the camera will adjust to the brightness of the nest instead of the darkness of the background. The image now looks much more like the real colors and brightness seen at the nest (see below). From the other views the nest was being washed out because of all the darker colors in the background.

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The nest as seen from the new camera site. It does slant to the right, but the actual nest bowl ends just to the right of what looks like dirt. The rest is just sticks that have fallen over the edge.

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We moved the camera to a position about 8 feet up in a large tree, so there should not be much movement in the wind.

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This is to give you an idea of the distance to the nest from the camera (~25 m). The nest is just to the left of the camera in this photo.

Finally, I've created a map of Cruz's travels around the islands. You will now be able to follow her progress (updated once or twice a week) on our website by clicking here
or follow the links from our IWS home page under Interactive.
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Until next time.
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harpo516
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Oh my gosh what an update!!! What great information and now we have a real point of reference as to the camera/nest etc.! Love it.

You guys are super and we can't say THANK YOU enough for sure!
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Teddy_Neal
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Thanks, Peter!
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Hulabird
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Wow!!! Excellent update and lots of information. Thank you so much! We all appreciate all you are doing but you might have figured that out by now. ;)
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ElaineRuth
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Dr. Sharpe...... you are too much!!!!! You thought of everything and answered every question!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for the tracking map for our little Cruzette. Do you think she will ever come home????
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Also thanks for wrapping the camera to the tree instead of stabbing it on. All of us tree huggers appreciate it.

Momma 26 says step away from the fish you little brat and nobody will get hurt.
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ElaineRuth
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Dr. Sharpe, I love that travalogue map!! It looks like she has left little yellow droppings all over the place!!!
I sure hope she will be safe on Santa Rosa. I would feel better if she had stayed home. Why is it that all but one of those birds have left Santa Cruz??
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Dr. Sharpe, thank you so much for the great update. The map of Cruz' travels is something that I want to go back and study some more. It must have taken you a long time to set it up. I always enjoy seeing the photos, too. The camera and nest pictures will give me a clearer mental image of the set-up. Thank you again for all your effort.
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Fantastic update, love the tracking Cruz map. I have had so much fun and appreciated the information provided which has been so enlightening. Thank you everyone who has contributed and most the IWS Crew, et al.

I invited a 'client' of mine to visit the web site and join or forum, ex-Navy and ex-US Coast Guard fella. We'll see if he turns up.
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cdn-cdn,Oct 11 2006
06:36 PM
Dr. Sharpe, thank you so much for the great update. The map of Cruz' travels is something that I want to go back and study some more. It must have taken you a long time to set it up. I always enjoy seeing the photos, too. The camera and nest pictures will give me a clearer mental image of the set-up. Thank you again for all your effort.

I spent most of yesterday making the maps. It takes about 5-10 min to make each map. It will be easier now that I'm caught up though.
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ElaineRuth,Oct 11 2006
06:36 PM
Why is it that all but one of those birds have left Santa Cruz??

The deer and elk hunt is going on over on Rosa. The birds are definately finding carcasses to feed on. If you look at the birds' locations, they are mostly in the interior of the island and tend to be near the roads and ridges the hunters use. On a positive point, there are rumors that they are using non-lead ammunition this year, although it hasn't been verified that I know of.
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That little Cruzette is a busy gal! I am disappointed to hear most of the eagles have left Santa Cruz for now, our hike is on the 22nd. Well, I for one, want to see a blue scrup jay, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for that.

Thanks, Dr. Sharpe, for the behind-the-scenes cam photos and description of how it works..

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Thank you, once again, for the incredible update Dr. Sharpe and crew. As usual, I have a question...I wrote down all of the eagles that you have been tracking since 2002. I see that you are only tracking 2 out of 11 from 2002, 1 (A-21) from 2003, 2 from 2004 (A-29 and A-33) and so on. Do you know where the others are, or have their transmitters run their course, OR do you gather your data from the various locations and report those birds tracked at that specific time and location? Does that make sense? Just wondering if the others are also on one of the islands, mainland, Canada, etc...
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Eagle Guy,Oct 11 2006
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The deer and elk hunt is going on over on Rosa. The birds are definately finding carcasses to feed on. If you look at the birds' locations, they are mostly in the interior of the island and tend to be near the roads and ridges the hunters use. On a positive point, there are rumors that they are using non-lead ammunition this year, although it hasn't been verified that I know of.

Very interesting observation! On Santa Cruz, on the coast for fish. Well, we need to keep this a secret from V&V, they'll use it to their advantage!!!
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Dr. Sharpe, you did mention AUDIO, didn't you???? :o
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