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Camera 1: old nest box with great tit, Cameras 2/3 new nest box with overhead and side views of a blue tit. |
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Weekly Bird Counts Kerry Pike Dec 07 to Feb 08 incuding 06/07 (as submitted to BWI)
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Season 2008 - Nest Camera DIYconstruction details and videos for version 3. Features 2 cameras - one overhead and movable side view. Sideview camera has pan/tilt/zoom functionalith that can be controlled outsdise the nest box. (2007 nestcam details: nestcam version 2) Construcions details & photos of a simple black/white nestcam. |
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Feb 2008 "Hot Bird" Birds' nest at the end of a satellite dish - photos. A flower pot was used to protect the motor of a motorised satellite dish, some blue tits decided to make it their nest last year. When the dish moved, so did the nest. |
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Ireland's BioDiversity week 2007 photos.
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Oct 2007 Nest box is opened, one unhatched egg (16 x 12.5mm), the 5th chick is still there. Photos |
14 Jun Spotted an an adult and chick in the garden. 01 Jun 3 days after fledging, spotted in the garden - photos.. 29 May They Fledge. Video shows 4 chicks leaving the nest with views from inside, outside the box and in the bushes afterwards. The 5th and last one didn't survive. So out of 8 egss 7 hatched, 3 died, 4 fledged. Download it. Some photos. |
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| 28 May. Google video. MP4 Clips: TailGrab - chick mistakes parent's tail for food. Day 17, Day 18. Usual feeding and wing flapping. | |
| 24 May Video Day15, mother wakes up, feeding, more wing flapping and they are calling out loudly when food arriveds MP4 Download | |
| 23 May Video clip showing 14 day old chick testing wings. A fly wanders in later causing some alarm! MP4 Download | |
23-May-07: There are only 5 this morning. Lost 1 yesterday for sure. 22-May-07: It's now 11 days after hatching, still 7 chicks. The unhatched egg is still in there somewhere. Larger video, MP4 to download. |
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| 14-May-07: 7 visible chicks being fed. Pic of one of the frames showing the 7, video enlarged. Download it as MP4 and also the following: Small chicks big caterpillars! (took 2 mins to swallow!), What are they fighting over this time??, another feeding clip. |
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10-May-07 Afternoon: 3 Chicks hatch in the morning and there are 6 (we think) by afternoon. So 2 unhatched eggs remain. Clip on left shows them moving about and one with an open mouth looking for food. See a larger version of the video or download a MP4 version of it. The eggs are 15mm x12mm weighing 0.5grams. See "morning" below for hatching. |
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10-May-07 Morning Blue tits hatching. See it bigger. Download: MP4 (5mb) .Chick has just struggled out of the top left egg, the parent(f?) then comes in and helps the upper right chick by removing and eating parts of the egg. She finally removes the remaining half of the upper left egg and takes it outside. Next clip shows the parent (f?) coming in to feed the chick at the center top and well, ah-hem, what goes in must come out so she removes the "waste in the form of fecal pellet enclosed in a gelatinous sac". In the last clip the other parent (m?) feeds a chick in the lower right hand side but mammy has to look after the other end and takes the "message" outside. All the chicks shown had just hatched (10May07), 2 eggs still remained out of a total of 8. They should remain in the nest 18 or so days. |
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10-May-07: 3 Chicks. Video to follow later. 03-May-07: Food fight! Male bring in a nice juicy caterpillar for the female but seems to have difficulty with the idea of handing it over! |
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01-May-07: No change. hatching expected, all going well, around 8th May? (12-14 days after 27thApr). 28-Apr-07: 8 eggs, incubation continues. Clip on left shows 8 eggs, female entering nest followed by male who feeds her, then she settles down on eggs. See larger version. Download it. (1mb, mp4 movie, 30 seconds). |
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27-Apr-07: 8 eggs, incubation started. 22-Apr-07: 3 Eggs: Download (18mb mpg video , realplayer or nero showtime)) it, or see full size google video, or click play on movie on to showing male feeding female, going to sleep on 3 eggs, then reorganisising the eggs head down and tail flicking embarriningly up in the air. Blue Tit: google video of embarrising moment or download (8mb mgp) the movie(sound required!). |
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21-Apr-07 Blue Tit nest, 2 eggs visible. Click play on google movie to the left, or see larger google video or download it (5mb MPG movie). 1st egg arrived apr 20. 22-Apr-07 - 3 eggs |
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Jan/Feb 07 Roosting Great Tit movie clip, winter of 2006/7 HiRes (80mb), LowRes (56mb).Clips taken during Jan/Feb 07 combined into a 4 minute movie covering dusk to dawn. See the bird entering/leaving, preening, going to sleep, holding on during a F9 gale etc. Click on image on the left of view on google video to get a larger window. |
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02-Apr-07 Pair of Blue Tits making nest, kerry pike, cork (mp4, 12mb). Click movie to the left or for larger view see it on google video . The first bird is probably a male and is trying to attract his mate inside, and probably realised that she is nearby. By him leaving the box, it allowed the female to go inside. (thanks to Andy of NestWatch.info for the explaination). The nest was started on 23 march, but it wasn't a very organised effort until about a week later. 20-April-07: First Egg |
DIY: NestCam construction details from Andy's Nestwatch.info (offline but back march 08) site here and some videos from inside the nest box.
How to fit a camera and lights to a nest box. Two nest cam boxes were make this way, the great tit box uses a better quality camera than the blue tit one. A DVD recorder was used to continuosly capture video to it's hard disk, then highlights burned to dvd. DVD then copied to pc for upload to web.
Garden Birds, Kerry Pike, Cork, Ireland 2006, Camera Olympus E-500, Sigma lense.
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Close UPs From a hide
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Action Taken from inside the house
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Rings, on a goldfinch
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More, Taken from inside the house
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Links:
Like rte radio mooney goes wild rte rte.ie robins blue tit wren blackbird coal tit great tit bbc2 sir david attenborough springwatch spring watch mooneycam mooney cam nestwatch 2006 2007 2008 2009 school watch
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