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Swooping, zooming, panning New Forest, Hampshire Webcam!

A swooping, zooming, panning Webcam of New Forest National Park in Hampshire might at first seem jarring.

But as you're wisked suddenly from a treetop view of a distant meadow to a wide open pasture stretching to a nearby road with what appears to be a fenced in corral at its center, the reason becomes obvious.

New Forest Pony
Originally uploaded by Supermac1961

You and the Webcam are, after all, on the lookout for what may be this park's most famous inhabitants: the New Forest Ponies.

Who needs lawn mowers with these animals about? As the park's Website explains:

The famous ponies that roam freely throughout the New Forest National Park appear to be wild, however, they are all owned by the forests' practicing Commoners. Some ponies can be handled by their owners while others have never been tamed. Each animal must be branded for identification purposes and an annual marking fee must be paid to the forest Agisters before they are allowed to graze.

Individual ponies tend to stay within a certain area, known as the 'haunt', as this will include favourite watering spots, grazing areas, shelter and shade. Many, spend their whole lives in the forest while others are sold by their owners for training or riding (their calm temperament and friendly, gentle nature makes them ideal for this).

For more on New Forest National Park in Hampshire be sure to consult the park's Website at http://www.the-new-forest-national-park.co.uk/index.html

Meerkat facts and live steaming video

Here are some Meerkat facts and live streaming video of these little blokes ATTENDING COLLEGE???

Actually, the Meerkats are the guests of Reaseheath College and the facts are provided courtesy of Meerkats.net, a Website dedicated to these creatures.

Meerkats
Originally uploaded by Martin Pettitt

• A mongoose by any other name. Meerkats are actually members of this larger group of mammals of which their are about 35 varieties living in various parts of the world
• Born bald. Meerkat young are born with their eyes closed and with only partial fur covering their bodies, however, when fully grown both males and females sport a short fur coat of silver, orange or brown.
• Out of Africa. Meerkats are primarily residents of the Kalahari desert stretching across South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, and Zimbabwe covering an area 10 times the size of the UK.
• Mob connections. Meerkats reach a height of about 12 inches when standing erect, weigh in at about two pounds and often belong to groups of up to 40 in number commonly called gangs or mobs
• Community minded. Unlike other mongoose relations, often more solitary creatures living in pairs or alone, Meerkats are far more social building elaborate colonies consisting of mounds, access holes and a network of tunnels often leading to numerous sleep chambers.

For more about these amazing creatures contact Meerkat expert Grant McIlrath.

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Tiger attacks live video feed

A tiger attacked a live video feed from the UK earlier this year when a team installed one of only two such cameras to be placed within a tiger den.

Live streaming video company fiNETra Ltd. maintains four Webcams with live tiger video on its CheckItLive.com Website featuring as it happens video from zoos, beaches, wildlife habitats and travel destinations for a global audience.

Tiger Bite (Side View)
Originally uploaded by ToddBlm

"The most risky cameras we have are the ones inside Tigers Dens, we have put two cameras...inside enclosures that they are able to get at," said on site engineer Chris Baxendale.

"To overcome this we took a Vandal proof camera from the security industry which is made from cast aluminum and a heavy duty plastic (similar to the same material police make riots shields) and modified it to strengthen it even more," Baxendale added.

But the big cat was not impressed when she returned.

"When we installed the first one, the tiger was let in and she went straight for the camera, as it was new in her territory, she managed to get the whole thing in her mouth and her teeth around it, but to her futile attempts she didn’t manage to do any damage to the camera which has now been successfully in her enclosure since the beginning of 2009," Baxendale said.

The camera has given visitors an unprecedented glimpse into a tiger's world.

"This has enabled the keepers and public to see the female Tiger and her cubs without having to disturb them. Along with putting the camera on the web we also linked the camera to a large 40” screen so the public at the zoo could see without any interruption to the family," Baxendale said.

To view CheckItLive's tiger Webcams, move your cursor to the top left side of this page and click on the "Animals" button under "Our Video Feeds.

Finest birdcam page on Internet now available

What we here at CheckItLive.com like to regard as the finest birdcam page on the Internet is now available through a link here at the CheckItLive blog.

Marco Hebing

Our recently launched bird page features live streaming video of a variety of birds including:

• Penguins at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland and Dudley Zoo in West Midlands, England
• Hummingbirds and Coatis in a "remote tropical jungle" in Ecuador, part of the World Land Trust
• Nesting boxes in Rendlesham, Suffolk, Martlesham and at Folly Farm, Pensford, Bristol, England
• Wild birds from the Brazilian rainforest courtesy of a Webcam from nature documentarian Luciano Breves
• Wild birds including the Great Spotted Woodpecker visiting a feeder at Buckland Newton Farm, Dorset, England

You can also leave comments about these lovely live video feeds on our community or share them via Digg, delicious, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, Facebook, MySpace, reddit, and LiveJournal.

Look for the new link on the left side of this page under the heading "our video feeds". We'd like to hear what you think.

CheckItLive blog on MyBlogLog

For those regular visitors used to the Yahoo! environment, the CheckItLive blog has now established an outpost on MyBlogLog.

The well-established Yahoo! blogging community offers a variety of features to those who already possess a Yahoo! ID or use other Yahoo! services. Check our new page below!

MyBlogLog offers the opportunity to:

• Create a unique profile for the MyBlogLog community
• Add appropriate tags or let others tag you based on interests or relevant topics in your bio and other basic account information
• Add a blog or blogs to share with others in the MyBlogLog community complete with screen grab and basic description
• Network with other bloggers and MyBlogLog members making connections with others of similar or complimentary interests (Say, in viewing live streaming video of black rhinos at the Paignton Zoo Rhino House in Devon, England)
• Create a fan club for your blog or blogs for other members of the MyBlogLog community to join.

If you use MyBlogLog, have a Yahoo! ID or use any other Yahoo! service, please consider coming to visit us and becoming a member of the livevideofeeduk.com group and share our wonderful live video Webcams with the world.

Penguins: Live video and fun facts

Penguin Bros., originally uploaded by Martin Kolesar.

Penguins are the stars of two live video feeds in our expanding bird category here at CheckItLive.com, with Webcams revealing the lifestyles of these most beloved aquatic fowl at both the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland and the Dudley Zoo in West Midlands, England. Here are some fun facts about penguins and not so fun information on their plight from the Defenders of Wildlife blog.

• Penguin Suit. No we're not talking about a tux here. In fact, the penguin has a very unique outfit designed to promote its survival. The penguin's two-tone look, called counter-shading, keeps it safe when swimming making it difficult for predators from beneath to pick out its white underside against reflections from the water's surface and difficult for predators from above to detect the difference between the darker back of its body and the color of the ocean in which it swims.
• Twenty Something. With something like 11,654,000 pairs in it's most populous species and between 6,000 and 15,000 individuals in its most endangered, penguins have colonized every continent of the Southern hemisphere from the Galapagos Islands to Antarctica, but the penguin has only a short span to consider the meaning of this significant achievement with a lifespan depending on the species of between 15 and 20 years.
• Water Wings. Despite the perception of Penguins' front appendages as flippers they are in fact true wings though adapted to swimming instead of flight. Some species spend as much as 70 percent of their lives in water where they regularly forage for food.
• Loves Calamari. And for what do these perhaps most famous and recognizable of flightless birds forage in the aquatic world to which they are so perfectly adapted. Squid and shrimp like Krill in the icier polar waters of Antarctica and mostly fish in warmer regions. Unfortunately, climatic change is impacting at least one of those food supplies, the Krill that flourish in colder waters and the penguins themselves are on the menu of much larger predators like sharks, orcas, leopard seals and sea lions.
• Open for Adoption. As the numbers of some penguins like those in the Gallapagos diminish you can help prevent the disappearance of these unique and majestic creatures into the void of extinction. Please do what you can to help.

Share live streaming video on delicious

Delicious, located at http://delicious.com/, is another great social bookmarking site for sharing live streaming video from sites like CheckItLive.com.

To do so, simply:

• Sign up for a free delicious account
• Choose your favorite live streaming video from one of the many cameras on CheckItLive.com
• Post to delicious by selecting the site icon from the social bookmarking tool beneath the video
• Tag your posts with a descriptive word to help you keep track of your content and share it with likeminded people

CheckItLive invites you to share links for our live video feeds around the world via sites like Digg, delicious, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, Facebook, MySpace, reddit, and LiveJournal.

Oh, and if you do post links to our video whether to your social networking or social bookmarking site or to a blog or traditional Website, be sure to tell us about the creative way you used our video feeds and shared the feed with others and we'll link to your site and tell your story in an upcoming blog post.

Share streaming video and build your traffic

You can share streaming video and build your traffic whether to your social networking or social bookmarking site or to a blog or traditional Website with CheckItLive.com.

CheckItLive.com provides not only pages and pages of live streaming video in a variety of categories, but the ability to share those links on social sites including Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, Facebook, MySpace, reddit, and LiveJournal.

Live video, like the images above from Fistral Beach in Newquay, England, remain among the site's most popular. As on site engineer Chris Baxendale explains:

We look for a subject that we think will be interesting to watch on camera, for example: If we look at Fistral Beach in Newquay this shows us a nice wide angle shot of the beach, so surfers can look at the camera to see the current live surfing conditions, they are also able to see how many other surfers are on the surf so they can make an informed decision about whether to go or not.

To share our streaming videos with the world and build traffic to your Website in the process, simply:

Choose a live streaming video from CheckItLive.com you would like to share with others in your community.

Bookmark your video to your favorite social site by selecting the proper icon in the "social bookmarking" toolbar beneath the video and following the instructions, or

Post a link to your favorite video in your favorite blog or social network by copying and pasting the URL from the top of the video page and pasting into your site.

Tell us about the creative way you used our video feeds and shared the feed with others and we'll link to your site and tell your story in an upcoming blog

Editors reserve the right to decide whether your site is appropriate for us to link to or share with our readers.

Top birdcam video from CheckItLive

World Land Trust
Birdcam, Ecuador,
South America

Have you seen the top birdcam video now available on CheckItLive.com?

CheckItLive introduced its new "birds" category earlier this summer with live video feeds featuring a variety of birds making their home in the UK and South America.

Hummingbirds, penguins, Kiskadee, Palm Tanager, Brazilian Tanager: all make appearances in our exciting live Webcams.

Nesting Box, Suffolk,
England

You can watch and, of course, comment on any of our live video feeds.

Or bookmark and share links via some of these social websites: Digg, Delicio.us, StumbleUpon, Yahoo!, Facebook, MySpace, reddit, and LiveJournal.

To share or bookmark links, simply visit the video feed of your choice and click one of the social networking or bookmarking icons beneath.

Nesting Box in
Rendlesham, Suffolk,
England

Check out the top five live video feeds as chosen by our community to the left and follow the links to CheckItLive to see the live video for yourself.

If you're a bird fan yourself, blog about and link to our video to share it with others.

And if you do, be sure to e-mail us here at the CheckItLive blog to tell us about your post and we'll feature it and link to it in a future article letting others know too.

Edinburgh Zoo
Penguins, Scotland

If you have a video feed of your own you would like to share with our worldwide community, why not let us have a look.

E-mail us the link to your Webcam and if we decide to use it on CheckItLive.com you could share part of the revenue generated by the traffic your live video creates.
 

Dudley Zoo Penguins,
West Midlands,
England

If you enjoy the videos here at CheckItLive.com, be sure to tell a friend, e-mail a link, or place one on your Website.

We would love to tell the world about your Website if you've found a creative way to share our video so be sure to let us know.

Help us spread the word about CheckItLive.com and let us tell others how you did.