Sunday 7 November 2010

Bird Table Visitors

Yesterday I set up my IR passive detector next to the bird table to see what was visiting. The camera was on a tripod in the kitchen. I am always hopeful that it will capture something new - not yet though. Just plenty of the regulars.

IR Detector

Lighting conditions for photography were awful for most of the time and the results grainy so I combined some of the half decent in one collage. The 350D with 70-200mm lens took over 300 shots but most ended up in Dusty Bin..

Bird Table Visitors

I was surprised how often the Robin appeared in the shots as I rarely see it on the table.

8 comments:

  1. What a great idea, John. Last month's Countryfile Magazine had an advert for the Bushnell Trophy Cam, as used in the recent Tigers of Bhutan series. I have thought about buying one (sometime in the future).

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  2. Have you adapted your bird table yourself John.

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  3. Neat idea John, and good results too.

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  4. A delightful collage John!

    I just caught up with yesterday's post too and enjoyed the videos. It always fascinates me when you mention the chickens in the churchyard, I have never seen that anywhere, who do they actually belong to?

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  5. Hello Emma. The Bushnell cameras seem to be very good by all accounts, far better than the Prostalk I bought.

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  6. Not quite sure which bit you mean Capt. S. I put the wire mesh round the table to keep the greedy pigeons away. The IR detector is also home brew - a room IR passive detector which operated a relay which triggers a wireless remote trigger for the camera. All operated from a 12V gell cell battery.

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  7. Thank you Keith. With decent sunlight the results can be very good but with poor light plus manual focus it doesn't cover the full depth of the table.

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  8. Thank you Jan.

    Regarding the chickens, both properties each side of the churchyard keep free range chickens which either fly over the wire fencing or find gaps through it - the grass always being greener on the other side ;)

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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