‘I was watching osprey for five hours a day’: how the world fell in love with nature live streams | Livestreaming

In 2012, Diane Hoffman, a retired consultant, Tom Makhshasa. For five hours a day, I saw the strange of the couple, Harright and Ozi, who lived on the Donrofin farm in Montana.

The couple was nesting ospreys, where it was broadcast live while they were hugging the clutch of the eggs. The eggs have never hatched, but Ospreys sat on them for several months before they finally expelled them from the nest.

“I think they have suffered sadness,” says Hoffmann, 81, who saw birds from 2000 miles (3000 km) in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Hoffman was treating her grief after losing her husband, brother and father, and watching the live tables is how she joined the world. “

“It was very black time,” she says. Despite Ozzie’s death in 2014, she still watches the nest and current occupants for an hour a day. “I can’t think of anything the Internet has done better than these cameras.”

Live tables that focus on the nature, which have been prepared near nests, water holes, dens, or landscapes to provide live and continuous nutrition for the natural world, have spread over the past two decades, with the help of cheap cameras and Internet connections remotely. Nature drama – or sometimes its absence – is what attracts people.

The seventh season of The Great Moose Migration From the Swedish broadcaster SVT, it included 20 days of continuous live shots, drawing millions of viewers. Norway NRK broadcast 18 hours of salmon swims on the source And 12 hours of firewood. Viral Fish door bell Viewers are allowed to watch migratory fish in a lock at Utrecht.

In an increasing urban society, where people spend more time on screens, they are less related to nature. “Although technology can attract us away from the natural world, we have also learned that technology can bind us to nature with unique ways,” ” The researchers wrote on a paper Posted in March.

Come Another study This has been found that live natural can “can improve the lives of those who cannot leave their homes or live away from natural environments.”

Researchers from the University of Montana put a camera that focused on Harriet and Ozi’s nest in 2012. At the end of the reproductive season, the owner, Susan Miller, stopped its operation, but dozens of people called her. “[They said] Please, don’t do that. “We want to see your farm,” says Miller. Miller says. In addition to birds, they can see what is going on behind the nest, as you say, and they wanted to continue to watch.

Initially, Miller did not understand the reason that someone broadcasting worldly tasks such as the cliff of horses. “I initially found that this is very strange,” she says. But it added three other live currents of the river, and the bird and feeders. Only when she became sick and she was not able to leave the house for six months, she understood the value of that – she is also a drug addict on the direct tables of the farm.

If someone leaves an open gate, within a few minutes, the crossbar will contact the farm to warn it. Watch the members a veterinarian putting a horse after sliding on the ice and breaking his neck. The horse’s head is in the bosom of Miller as he died. “Many of these people are older and they face death themselves,” she says. “They made them talk about death.”

The stream includes 275 subscribers, and most of them are unprecedented on the farm. It costs $ 8 per month to be a member, most of them are elderly or those who suffer from decreased mobility. Their ashes have spread there although their foot is not placed on the farm, because they became their favorite place in their last years.

Many of these sites allow viewers to send a message to each other or post messages on discussion boards. Created in 1994, Fogcam It is often described as the oldest constantly working in the world. It is a single living camera that publishes a picture every 20 seconds, climbing fog circulating to San Francisco.

“If you can imagine it, there is possible that there will be a live flow on this topic,” says Rebecca Moldin, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. “It is a new field of research, but it is not a new field; millions of people watch live currents of nature.”

But they are not just another form of entertainment – research indicates that it may also be good for luxury. A new study awaiting the publication showed that playing live tables that focus on nature increased the welfare of some oldest population in the care house, improving their mood, relaxation levels, and sleep. former Ticket Dunovin’s web cameras have also found a “great positive change” for home residents, and could be an “innovative and effective” to improve luxury on a wider scale.

“I realized that not only for older adults – there are all kinds of reasons that make you do not have a full access to nature,” Moldin says.

There are hundreds of web cameras across 35 National Gardens of the United States. the Giant panda giant It picks up animal activities in the National Smithsonian Zoo, and Africa Wildlife looks using cameras throughout Africa. In the United Kingdom, the wildlife boxes enjoy 25 live web cameras. One of the most popular is Peregrine Falcon Cam At the top of the city hall at Leamington, which had 160,000 views in 2024.

In more distant sites, web cameras provide an alternative to people who cannot visit personally. On the island of Skomer off the Welsh coast, the 42,000 broadcasts of the broadcast are arrested in a live course with 120,000 views in 2024.

They are also a way to learn more about animal behavior. Memorization specialists use a Live camera To study gray seals in South Walney Nature Reserve, which is free of human disorders as there is no general access to the beach. “One of our trainees has monitored the first seal ever born in the reserve via the camera-a small, white and gentle puppy located between adults,” says Georgia de Jong Kelender, President of Marine at the CORBEA Wild Live Trust.

For some birds such as ospreys, permanent cameras double as CCTV. “The Osprey camera is primarily for security, to ensure that these birds and their nests will be safe, and to work as a deterrent for anyone who wants to harm them,” says Paul Waterhouse, a reserve official at CORBEA. Wildlife Trust.

Moldin says her research shows that Nature’s live currents relax to people and help them put their own concerns in their right perspective.

“He tells a lot about the curiosity of man – we love to learn, we love feeling surprising – sometimes nothing, and sometimes this is great. He is eager to contact the world around us.”

What do you see?

Make sure to start watching nature online? Here are six of the most popular living tables to start:

• Bear go hunting: From late June and throughout July, Flock to Brokes Falls in Alaska to arrest migrant salmon. Sometimes, up to 25 bears can be seen on the screen once (if you can’t wait until June, here Two hours of the shots Success)

• Bats in this step: In the daytime, everything is calm on the live broadcast of Bracken Cave, Texas in the United States-but in the evening, you can pick up the Mexican Mexican Breakdel Tel 20 million residents that flow from the cave to go in hunting.

• The suburbs of children: KNEPP ESTATE in Sussex in the UK is home to an increasing number of white vaccine that was first born in 2020 after the absence of hundreds of years. Live broadcast shows that the nest currently plays four emerging offspring: ILA, IVY, IVY and IVAN. At the time of writing this report, they were tearing a dead small rabbit.

• Love Island for Osprey: This was a series of a successful reality program, where four couples are fighting from Osprey for space in a nest in Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve in Scotland. After weeks of vaccination and exit, two birds claimed first place and appeared to lay their eggs in one basket.

• Go to drink: This live broadcast Spies on a watering hole in the Timb Phil Garden on the borders of South Africa and Mozambique, and you can see a continuous flow of elephants, black, ivory century and the Bavalo stop sip. After darkness, the night vision of the camera illuminates a calming world of mites and considering.

• Gilly Camera Live: The Monterey Pay Aquarium camera provides a sleeping experience, which overwhelms you in the world of the calm, native sea in the East Pacific. The jellyfish can be seen drifting through it, and their claws gently beats as they go.

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