Article about a webcam in the newspaper "Evening Moscow"

In nature, you can watch without leaving home.

Modern web cameras allow to observe the animals directly from home.

Screams are heard from the room: grunt, Ryki ... Frightened mum opened the door.
But do not worry - it just went wild boars. At trough gathered for dinner the whole flock. Pigs less pushing each other at the trough and slurp loudly with pleasure. Leader pushes impudent young. Effect of full. Like a movie, but the momentary happening completely changes the experience. It was like she was sitting in an ambush. And now my back knocking the drop, and my feet get wet ...

Hide and seek with the rabbits
Modern technology allows you to travel around the world without leaving home. For you have trampled all paths other researchers: biologists, zoologists, meteorologists and just lovers of nature.
They found the camera in a bird's nest in the zoo, on submerged reefs. You just turn on your computer, go to the desired page, sit comfortably in a chair - and watch "a movie about zverushek. For example, watch for Strix in the nest or the elephants, that's just now reaching to the stream.
Webcams are different. Some show "live video". Picture me with such frequency that you will not notice the frame. Picture clear, sounds are transmitted with virtually no distortion.
There are cameras, where image is changed less frequently: every 30 seconds, every minute or even once every 6 hours (web camera, fixing a solar flare). Sound can be absent altogether. But the look is no less interesting. After using the camera can see what else you do not see at all. That right now there was a surge in solar activity. And the camera mounted on the satellite, captured rushed to the side of the Earth prominence.
There are controlled chamber. Clicking on the button on the keyboard, you can move the image left and right, zoom in or remote.
Control the camera in the aviary with the rabbits like playing hide and seek. You - driving, and you need to find a crouching animal. After a couple of minutes to search and it appears that the rabbit calmly chewing a carrot in the cage (it will show other web-camera), in his cage and was not released.
Night camera or set in dark places (eg in clusters) operate in the infrared mode. If instead of the image on the screen black, it does not necessarily mean that the apparatus had broken down. Check the time zone, suddenly at the end of the world overnight?

Internet star has become a mother
White stripes-glare - Somewhere near the camera in a hollow tree spider weaves a web. On sparse bed of feathers lay an egg and a little startled several light lumps. Clara lives here, the owl of the genus Strix. The man who invented her name, is lost in the pages of the forum monitors Estonian website "Calendar of Nature.
In the diary of events you can see that on the first day of spring Clara laid an egg. A week later, there were already five.
At first Clara was an exemplary mother, a long absent herself from the nest, leaving eggs in the cold at night without supervision. Condemnatory posts on the forum owl forced to think again: it is densely sat on the eggs and practically ceased to fly out of the hollow.
A fortnight ago there was a tragedy. Marten climbed into the slot and took the egg. But the remaining four - survived. Last week, a forum zapestrel joyful message: "Our web-Star became a mother." Hatched sovyat Claire hides from the audience, obscures its wings as a hen-hen.
On the existence of webcams Clara, apparently unaware. It is worth it to talk (sitting at home in front of the monitor), as Clara immediately turns his head and looks directly at you eye-saucers.
Monitor Strix want round the clock.
The problem is that the owls - night bird, and you in the morning - at work.

The whole world in the palm
- I was amazed how much you can see in real time: the animal world, different cities and countries, - says Denis Trofimov, creator of the site www.geocam.ruTo date, perhaps the most complete directory in RuNet webcams. - I started collecting interesting links.
When they have accumulated too much, decided to organize data and make a site.
Site a little over a year. But in the catalog are more than 1000 webcams placed throughout the world. More than 4 thousand people stare per day on the site. Denis every day testing the camera. Special program tells how long have not been tested. If it is interrupted, it is noted.
Why does the camera stop working? In a powerful online channel and the associated hardware needed money. And often all rests on the enthusiasm. Webcams steal, break, with them have accidents. Last year in New Zealand at the camera because of the hurricane tree fell.
The volcano Etna equipment flooded by lava.
- And that in general can be seen through a webcam, without leaving home? - I inquire.
- Yes, the whole world! - Sure Denis. - From the simplest microscope laboratory of the Washington Zoo to the planet Earth from space. You can see the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Vatican, Kizhi, the Pantheon in Rome, Mecca, home of Santa Claus in Lapland, the Milan Cathedral ...
Webcams - not just entertainment. There are of them and the real benefits. Window into the nature of the child may be interested in geography, biology, astronomy. And an adult can easily find out what the weather at the resorts, and receive a lot of other useful information.
For many people, cameras on the Internet - the only opportunity to see distant lands, or, conversely, to return to the places they are associated with memories. "I look at the Czech Republic, where she lived before. Can you add the camera Orenburg? This is my home "- asked one of the visitors copyright.
According to statistics, the most popular webcams, of course, those who shoot animals. Among them is the constant "windows of nature, and there are seasonal (for example, in the nests of storks). By the way, now is the time to watch storks. They just arrived.

Help "BM"
The first ever webcam was launched in 1991, showed the coffee in one of the rooms at Cambridge University (lazy IT staff wanted to know, not over whether the coffee on the floor above, before climbing behind him). She worked until 22 August 2001 The last photograph made this camera can still be seen on its home page on the Internet.