Wildlife
Bald Eagles: 3 Live Cameras — California Channel Islands
Three nests in the Channel Islands off southern California, part of a reintroduction programme that has been running for more than forty years.
What you can see
All three cameras are on bald eagle nests in the Channel Islands, off southern California. The reintroduction of bald eagles to these islands has been running for more than forty years, and these are its nests.
Two Harbors, Catalina Island sits on a cliff above the village. The rough island terrain meeting the sea is the backdrop.
Fraser Point is on Nature Conservancy land on Santa Cruz Island. This pair moved here in 2023 from a nest they had used for years. It is run by the Institute for Wildlife Studies.
Sauces is on the same island — Santa Cruz is the largest island in Channel Islands National Park — and looks down on the nest from close in.
The two Santa Cruz cameras are different pairs on one island, so opening them side by side shows how far apart two nests can be in the same season.
Cameras you can watch now: 3
All 3 are live video. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Live video
Bald eagles at Two Harbors, Catalina
California, Catalina Island · Wildlife · Sea
A bald eagle nest on the cliffs of Catalina Island off southern California, above the settlement of Two Harbors. The backdrop is the rugged Channel Islands landscape meeting the sea.
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Live video
Fraser Point bald eagle nest
California, Santa Cruz Island · Wildlife · Sea
A nest on The Nature Conservancy's land on Santa Cruz Island. The Fraser Point pair moved here from their historic nest in 2023. They are part of a bald eagle restoration project on the California Channel Islands that has run for more than forty years, managed by the Institute for Wildlife Studies.
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Live video
Sauces bald eagle (Channel Islands NP)
California, Santa Cruz Island · Wildlife · Sea
Santa Cruz Island is the largest island in Channel Islands National Park, off southern California. This camera looks into the snug nest of a bald eagle family there.
When to watch
None of the three providers names a season. These are nest cameras, so the picture is completely different with chicks and without them, but we are not going to invent a date for that here.
California is 16 hours behind Japan on daylight saving time. 6am there is 10pm in Japan, noon there is 4am the next day, and 6pm there is 10am the next day. So Japanese night through the following midday is daylight there. In winter the gap is 17 hours and everything shifts an hour later.
The Channel Islands are a foggy coast. These cameras look down from clifftops, so on a foggy day the sea below simply vanishes into white.
If it isn't showing
All three also appear on the United States page. Living subjects are collected under Wildlife, and coastal cameras under Sea.
For other raptor nests there are Ospreys and Peregrine Falcons; for more of California, California Condors.
On choosing what time to open one, see Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Bald Eagles
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- explore.org (Deep links and embeds OK, no image reuse) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.