New Forest Gateway Goshawk cam will be live in early April. Here is a link to the nest cam:

http://www.newforestgateway.org/Wildcam/...17/Default.aspx

The cam is live this morning and one of them was on the nest! Looks like they have some tweaking to do to their cam.

They posted this message:
NFG

29/03/2014
We are now live from a Goshawk nest. The live stream may be intermittent over the next few days as we sort out all the connections.

This is a new nest and the female is on four eggs. The last egg was laid about thirty six hours ago.

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I snipped this pic today. I hope this cam gets LOTS better.

They appear to be still working on the cam, but this pic is clear enough to see there surely are four eggs!!

The cam looks really good today but I have almost constant buffering. Not sure if it's me or them.

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Mama Goshawk is on her job incubating her 4 eggs. She got up and stretched her wings and legs on the edge of the nest and settled back down on her eggs. I had forgotten about the cuckoo birds around that nest. I heard them calling, too.

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This cam has so much buffering I can hardly watch it but managed to get a couple of snips today. Hopefully, the buffering problem will improve before the eggs hatch.

New Forest has added a low bandwidth player on their site. It's a small screen but might help some with the buffering problem. This smaller screen is below the big one.
http://www.newforestgateway.org/Wildcam/...17/Default.aspx

Mrs. Goss was sitting on her eggs yesterday and was constantly scanning the area for any intruders. She looks serious about her privacy and I wouldn't want to mess with her!


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I got an email today from New Forest telling us how to enlarge the low bandwidth cam screen.

NFG Admin
To Me
Today at 10:50 AM
Hello Pat,

The best way to be able to resize the video is as follows:

Install VLC Player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Go to “Media” – “Open Network Stream”

Put either of the links below in the box marked “Please enter a network URL”

http://carnyx.tv:1935/live/newforest1/playlist.m3u8 – high bandwidth stream

http://carnyx.tv:1935/live/newforest2/playlist.m3u8 - low bandwidth stream

Click “Play”

The player can then be resized as you wish,

Kind regards,
Peter

First hatch yesterday, April 28th. This morning there are three chicks in the nest and one egg to go. Mama Goss has fed the three twice this morning already. The first two look strong, and the third one is trying, but struggling a bit. S/he would raise up real high to get Mom's attention, and as Mom reached over to the chick, it would fall over backwards. The baby did get a little food, but not much.

Video of 1st hatch by goshawkeyes

Another "orderly" feeding of the three hatchlings. The fourth egg remains intact. Hopefully tonight or tomorrow? Mum Goss continued to feed her chicks until they had stopped cheeping, which means -- all three had full crops.

Alta, I think you're "right on" that there's a difference beteen the RTH chicks and these as far as sibling interaction. And I don't believe it's 100% tied to how much food is on the nest. Could be that it's a difference between accipiters and buteos! At least that's my speculation for now.

I got another email from Peter at New Forest and I think this will solve the problem of having the tiny screen for the low bandwidth player! I tried clicking on the popout and it worked great for me! I put our Social Stream side by side with the popout and had no problems! Many thanks to Peter and New Forest for working on this. We should have a great view of this nest this year.

NFG Admin
To Me
Apr 30 at 5:18 AM
Pat,

I have another possible solution. Go to the Carnyx page:
http://www.carnyx.tv/CarnyxWild/Wildlife.../NewForest.aspx

....and click on the “Popout Player” towards the bottom of the page. Each time you resize the window you need to refresh the page (F5). That will change the player size to suit the window.

Regards,
Peter

I am having good luck with the higher broadband video now. Perhaps they fixed more than the pop-out screen! Here's a shot of Dad coming to the nest. Mum has an unusual way of saying "thank you" for the meals he brings. Sounds like she is giving him "what for!"