Every night around dusk, Mrs. Ace starts her whinny. A half-hour or so later, she takes off for

     For some excellent shots of the Virginia rails currently hanging out near the boardwalk in the Dead Zone

Other bird cams of note:    The Owl Pages’ list of nest cams: http://www.owlpages.com/links.php?cat=Owls-Nestcams   Cornell’s Birdhouse Network: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse/nestboxcam/index_html  

         First things first: Mrs. Ace update    Thanks to the screech cam, I can report that

   Now that the basement is mostly dried out, I am trying to do a few video clips of Mrs.

     In case you’re thinking of putting up an owl box of your own, here’s how I did mine.

   The Sunday nor’easter, which brought widespread disaster to our region, generated so much flooding locally that it turned our

   I walked around the south end of the lake today by the Warden's Watch, and just being able to

   Got the monitor up and running last night long enough to check on Mrs. Ace.   The first image

  I’ve had to close down the owl-cam monitoring operation in our basement… Flooding in the entire region is severe.