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Submitted by samihakhanna on 07/24/2008 - 09:56

I logged on this morning to see the baby robins on the Duke University Office of News and Communications Webcam (see yesterday's post titled "Animal Planet, eat your heart out.")

Fortunately for them, they've learned to flap their little wings. Unfortunately for the 100-plus viewers who tuned in yesterday to watch them, they've moved somewhere out of the Webcam's view.

Their closest observers were kind enough to post this notice in the birds' nest: "Birds have flown away."

Animal Planet, eat your heart out

Submitted by samihakhanna on 07/23/2008 - 12:22

I've just discovered the instant stress buster: watching — via a Webcam feed to my desktop — a nest of three helpless, fuzzy baby birds snuggle together and wait eagerly for their mom to bring them a morsel.
The folks over at the Duke University Office of News and Communications actually set the Web stream up after discovering the nest on the ledge of a window of their Chapel Drive office.
They've linked the feed to Duke Today, one of the university's internal news sites.
At approximately 11:33 a.m., my colleagues heard me squeal with delight as the momma bird arrived with an earthworm, and the babies stretched up to meet her, beaks gaping.
Check it out soon - it appears the birds will be ready to leave the nest in just a couple of days.
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