‘Ding’ Darling Partners With VCB for Interactive Webcam

provided to The Santiva Chronicle

In partnership with the Lee County Visitors & Convention Bureau (VCB), the “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS) presents a new and improved live refuge webcam on the homepage of its website.

Thanks to donations from the Gardner Families, DDWS is able to maintain a live webcam mounted on the Wildlife Drive Observation Tower at the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island. Thanks to the VCB, viewers can actually control what view they see from the webpage.

Here are the three steps to controlling the webcam feed:

• Click the arrow on the webcam video, then click on the three lines at top right and select “Live Feed.”
• Next, hover over the icons at bottom right and click on “Control.” The camera widget will let you know how long you must wait until it is your turn to change the control setting.
• When your turn comes up, you will see an eye icon at the top right. Click on it for a list of eight views to choose from.

“We are so thankful for the Gardner Families for supporting our video camera and the VCB for working with us to provide such an amazing tool for our website users,” said DDWS executive director Ann-Marie Wildman. “We have many avid refuge and birding fans who tell us they check the webcam every day and sometimes throughout each day.”

Note: DDWS recently debuted a new website, so if you bookmarked the webcam page in the past, you will have to delete the old bookmark and create a new one here.

Besides the DDWS website, viewers can also access the refuge live came from the VCB website and the SanCap Chamber webcam page.

ABOUT DDWS
As a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, DDWS works to support J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge’s mission of conservation, wildlife and habitat protection, research, and public education through charitable donations and Refuge Nature Shop profits. To support DDWS and the refuge with a tax-deductible gift, visit dingdarlingsociety.org or Ann-Marie Wildman at 239-789-8991 or wildman@dingdarlingsociety.org.