Peregrine Falcons in Manchester, NH

Female at 1750 Feb 2011

Working in conjunction with the New Hampshire Audubon and Brady Sullivan Properties, Spectra Access is pleased to provide live streaming video of the Peregrine Falcons nesting at 1750 Elm Street in Manchester, NH.

Open Camera (ONLINE)

6/6/11: The falcons have taken flight. You may still catch one of the young on the perch from time to time. They will remain in the area for a while, but will start to move on by the end of June. The adults will remain in the area for the entire year and can be seen on the perch from time to time.

Please Note:
Depending on server load, if your video does not appear after 10 seconds, you may need to close the video window and reopen it. If the video still does not appear, please wait 5 minutes before retrying

Camera windows will close after 3 minutes to preserve bandwidth. You may reopen the windows as many times as you like.

We've added sound as an experiment to the video right now. The plan is to keep the sound active, but we won't know what impact traffic load will have on the sound over the long term.

2010 Past Pictures

Spectra Access enjoyed hosting the streaming camera during 2010 as 5 young falcons were raised and it is the first documented case of that in New Hampshire. We received a great number of emails from all over the world expressing appreciation for the cameras and we are glad we could provide the service. We are currently working on making some changes to help handle the network load we saw from last year . Also we have increased the the video size and quality for testing at the moment.

If anyone one would like to learn more about falcons as well as other birds of New Hampshire please visit the NH Audubon website.

http://www.nhaudubon.org/

Please Note: A broadband connection is required. Additionally you may need to load Adobe Flash and/or Java. Also the software we are using is beta and if problems arise you may need to restart your browser.

Notes about the Technology: The camera's are currently connected to a Linux based machine (at 1750 Elm) that we've used in the past for the Falcon cam, but last year we've saw 3 times the amount of traffic to these cameras than we have in prior years. During peak times we are averaging about 30 Mbps of bandwidth utilization that was streaming the live feeds to about 50-60 active connections with 1000-2000 connections daily. These connections are all running through our wireless network that Spectra Access has implemented throughout the greater Concord, Manchester, and Nashua areas.

Technical questions/comments only please contact us at falcon@spectraaccess.com.


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