Sigh… today’s results were so-so… We’ve had a bit of wet weather lately, so traffic to the water bowl was modest, also I’ve been fiddling with the camera angle, which resulted in shots with difficult shade and sunlight. Please bear with me while I get our stuff together…
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Re-position
With all the rain we’ve had over the past week, the bird bath hasn’t had many customers. Today I took the opportunity to re-position the camera into a, perhaps, permanent position.
So we’re ready to capture some images! Here is a visit from a couple of Sulphur Crested Cockatoos. A common sight (and sound) around Blaxland. And, given the price, the camera is OK.
Switching the camera to video gives this result, go ahead and press “play”:
I’m tossing up whether to use photos or video. What do you think? email blaxlandbirds@gmail.com
I expect to leave the camera out 24 hours a day in all conditions and clearly, it needed a stand. A conventional tripod would need to be weatherproof and pretty solid…
So in the tradition of my late father, I made my own from scraps of wood and fitted the camera to it with a $12 security camera mount. The camera itself is waterproof, so we’re all set to go!
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In the beginning…
We’ve lived in Blaxland for almost 50 years and love living at the edge of the Blue Mountains National Park. When I sit in our living room, I just see trees and, inevitably, the local birds.
Some years back, when Craig & Liz moved into town, we “inherited” their bird bath.
[ A previous version credited my father moving into a retirement home for the inheritance, but I was corrected by SWMBO…]
Lots of local birds use it to have a drink or a bath and occasionally we spot a night time visitor as well. I’m no “twitcher” or “birder” , but the temptation was there to identify our visitors, so here we are: Blaxland Birds…