Bird-Cam 2011

wonder_lander · 19 May 2011 at 17:36

We now have an embeded live feed on the website so feel free to watch the blue t1ts (stupid swear filter) in real time. - http://www.bird-cam.co.uk/

Cosimo · 19 May 2011 at 17:42

Great to have the live feed.

One of the parents just popped in to feed.

wonder_lander · 19 May 2011 at 17:47

simulatorman said:
Great to have the live feed. One of the parents just popped in to feed.

You should see the parents in and out constantly. It's a proper full time job for them!

Cosimo · 19 May 2011 at 17:52

wonder_lander said:
You should see the parents in and out constantly. It's a proper full time job for them!

You wonder where they get the strength from. Those little ones get very noisy when they turn up. Great stuff.

wonder_lander · 19 May 2011 at 19:15

You should see them later on tonight when they go to sleep for the evening. Mrs Tit spends a great deal of time shuffling around trying to get comfy and keep them all warm!

wonder_lander · 21 May 2011 at 10:27

Chicks are fiesty this morning. Chirping away for mum to come and bring them some tasty caterpillars! I swear if that big chick could wait in the hole for its mother it would!

topgun06 · 21 May 2011 at 10:50

Awesome stuff!

wonder_lander · 25 May 2011 at 21:09

Sad news about our chicks... Over the last five days all our chicks have died one by one.
Who knows the reason for sure, maybe one of the parents died, maybe the birds didn't time laying their eggs to match the caterpillar season right or something else but that's nature and we have a had a great couple of years before this year. Let hope birdcam 2012 will be more successful

topgun06 · 25 May 2011 at 22:05

Oh, thats a shame. Bird cam 2011 over already

Cosimo · 25 May 2011 at 23:27

How very sad. Who would ever have predicted this would happen.

EdGey · 26 May 2011 at 00:41

Oh well

As you say lets hope the next time is more successful.

Gimpymoo · 2 May 2012 at 19:19

Did bird-cam 2012 not happen

I have a nest in my loft, in the corner which has been active for a few years now at this time of year.

Can hear the chicks now chirping REALLY loud, must be feeding time.

Obviously, it would be too late to film them now as installing anything would disturb them but I would like to put something in place for 2013.

Could anyone recommend a wireless webcam with nightvision which would be adequate?

Many thanks.

[TW]Sponge · 2 May 2012 at 19:52

I had some blackbirds nesting in my fir tree for years. Came out this morning to check on it, and it was on the floor, with 1 egg untouched

Bloody cats.

Malevolence · 2 May 2012 at 19:58

How come 'Blue ***' is censored? Is *** really considered that offensive a word, especially in this context? Seems **** Sparrow is also censored too.

wonder_lander · 2 May 2012 at 20:06

Due to our own new arrival in November I never got around to clearing the 2011 nest out which seems to have meant they haven't come this year

Sorry for breaking the cycle with missing this year but we'll be back for 2013

Kristoph · 7 May 2012 at 13:30

Not hijacking but I set up a cam in Feb, and I see our blue **** have hatched this weekend.

It's at work and I've had a VLC stream set up across the network, it's not accessible externally unfortunately.

It's in low-light b&w right now. In the daylight it shows off the colour nicely.

wonder_lander · 7 May 2012 at 13:31

Looks great that. If you want to make it available externally then I suggest ustream.tv

Kristoph · 7 May 2012 at 13:42

Thanks, I've got a PC set up with it streaming at the moment, although I'm not sure what rights I have on it to stream over the net.

We've had it recording over the weekend as we thought they might hatch, we had to drop the bit rate as it was recording at 1mb a second. I think it's at 1GB an hour now and we'll have captured all of the hatching.

I might try and get a few clips of the moment they hatched onto youtube.