The birds are on the nest! Barred Owls. Great Horned Owls. Red-tailed Hawks. Bermuda Petrels. Northern Royal Albatross (get out your Coleridge). From nest building to egg laying, hatching to nurturing to fledging, these cams offer intimate views of feathered families. So now’s the time to open a window on your preferred species, move it to a corner of your screen, and experience the season in real time: the female regularly rolling the eggs, then resettling with a fluff of feathers as if rearranging her skirts; the male bringing in little feasts—small birds, squirrels, chipmunks, crayfish, mice. The ornithology department at Cornell University is one of the world’s greatest, and the Cornell Lab Bird Cams provide a perfect place to start your watching. The Red-tailed pair have a nest on the Cornell campus, and the female—known as “Big Red”—laid her first egg on March 14, 2022. The Barred Owls in Indiana already have three eggs (they only had two last year). Poignant are the moments throughout the day when the owl couple communicates, she patient in the nest, he somewhere in the woods. “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?” That’s the classic description of the Barred call. Where are you? I’m still here! Any food on the way? —Laura Jacobs