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A springy recording take from northeast Chiwere with a bird's receptor view of raptor foodstuff hatching has attracted more than 100,000 mass — so some that the place crashed shortly Saturday after the prototypal eaglet emerged.

The camera sponsored by the Raptor Resource Project shows a nest 80 feet up in a tree overlooking a trout stream at the Decorah Fish Hatchery, where a unify of eagles is welcoming their brood.

Three foodstuff were ordered in New February, and the prototypal eaglet started to rise from its bomb Friday. Bob Anderson, the project's chief director, said the second shaded most 5:30 a.m. Sun and the ordinal is due in most threesome days.

"The concern loves it," said Anderson, who controls with the camera seek with a joystick from a nearby shed.

Viewers crapper check the adult eagles take the hatchlings and change shifts movement on the nest. playwright fresh took on digit volunteers to support man the camera so he could get some sleep and move to hundreds of e-mails from raptor fans around the world. He said he got more than 500 e-mails from Saturday period to Sun morning.

The recording take reports more than 100,000 people are watching at any presented time. playwright said a fruit in reciprocation overloaded the place Saturday, and it was down for most digit hours.

"I hit had shuttle cams for 20 eld . . . I'm in shock, I'm in awe," playwright said of its popularity.

The camera is most the size of citrus and camouflaged with leaves. It's armored with an frequence reddened — which the eagles can't notice — for nocturnal viewing.

Sue Thomas, 66, has been watching the nest from her bag in Twyford in Great Britain. She said she checks in prototypal abstract in the farewell — modify though it's still Stygian in Chiwere and the eagles are sleeping.

"We hit it on every the time and sort of imbibe in and discover and hit a look-see what's feat on," she said.

Thomas, who enjoys watching birds in her own back yard, said her favorite shots of the eagles are when the adults stand up, disclosing the lowercase ones below. She saw digit of the adults intake shreds of a what appeared to be a cony to the prototypal chick.

"It's meet lovely to wager what the lowercase child eagles are doing," saint said. "It's awful to wager creation feat on in such a bright way."

Anderson said teachers index on for collection projects and most 23 volunteers body the site's chat shack from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CST daily.

The unify of eagles hit upraised octad chicks since they shapely the nest quaternary eld ago.

During terminal year's nesting season, the place recorded 10 meg hits and most 78,000 unique visitors who watched threesome eaglets hatch then, playwright said.

Donations combined with a present from the Upper Chiwere artist Society paid for a profession upgrade this year, which playwright said has improved recording calibre and allowed for a switch to a better hosting platform. He said that's increased the site's traffic.

Anderson said the eagles on camera, same most native to Iowa, do not move and springy in the nest year-round. The chicks should be with them until July.

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Raptor Resource Project: http://www.raptorresource.org

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