Very popular in the Maritimes - HenCam

OK, I have a complete soft spot for chickens. Nancy and I kept a dozen layers for years when we lived in New Hampshire. There's nothing quite as soothing as the sound of chickens speaking in low voices and nothing as ridiculous as a chicken's affronted dignity.

Our friend and incredible cook Terry Golson keeps a dozen over in Carlisle and she's got a webcam on her little flock. It's well done, frame rate is 1 per second which is enough to show her chickens aren't any smarter than mine were.

Terry reports that her HenCam site is quite popular in the Canadian Maritimes. I'm sure the folks up there are as amused that someone thinks a pen full of chickens merits its own website as they are by the birds themselves.

One of the very first internet webcam sites was fishcam. Just a camera on an aquarium. It was enormously popular, too.

Heath Hen Meadow land from space

Here's what it looks like from space. Note the footbridge on the right hand side.

Heath Hen Meadow Podcasts

I've made several recordings this week of the wood frogs and spring peepers and other folks who live in the marsh.

A 10 minute listen to wood frogs, spring peepers, the resident pair of Canada geese and a surprise guest toward the end. There's a little talking and much more Gaia music including water rushing through the beaver dam by the bridge.
http://www.climbing-trees.com/per/sounds/10MinutesofSpringEvening.mp3

An hour and more of my ramblings with amphibians, ducks, blackbirds and more. This recording concludes with the 10MinutesofSpringEvening.mp3 above.
http://www.climbing-trees.com/per/sounds/EveningOnTheMarsh032806.mp3

Here's 40 minutes of wood frogs and my thoughts on hunting and the overabundant deer population.
http://www.climbing-trees.com/per/sounds/MONOWoodFrogChorusMarch272006.mp3

More on wood frogs:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/narcam/idguide/wood1.htm

More on spring peepers:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/narcam/idguide/speeper.htm