Great Blue Herons, Up Close and Personal

Last spring the Cornell Lab of Ornithology set up webcams which let people watch the campus' red tailed hawk pair ("Ezra" and "Big Red") raise their chicks on streaming video. This year, they've added a camera for the Great Blue Heron nest outside the Lab's offices at Sapsucker Woods. To date, the female has laid five eggs -- and they should start hatching out gangly fluffy babies in a week or two.