Yesterday a female greater spotted woodpecker visited box 1. The box has aluminium reinforcement under the outer wood so the blue tits should be safe whilst inside. The first egg was laid in box 1 today. A great tit visited box 3 and immediately started to bring in nesting material and did some nesting wiggles. […]
The first blue tit egg appeared in box 4 today. There may also be egg(s) in box 5 but nothing is visible via the video feed. A mono camera has been re-fitted to box 3 but no activity has been observed yet.
Box 1 – Blue tit nest close to finished. The internal camera was replaced with a 1/2″ colour one and the external one by a high resolution IP camera. Box 2 – Blue tit roosting but little daytime activity. Box 3 – A few bits of nesting material. No camera yet. Box 4 – Blue […]
Until now we have stuck with iCatcher 3.3.13 since it has run very reliably for the last 3 seasons and will continue to be used for the stills captures, for now. Having seen the peregrine videos from Norwich Cathedral, we could not resist trying iCatcher 4. In order to get the best out of the […]
A spider had moved in between the lens and the glass wall in box 5. It has now been re-located. Blue tits have started to build nests in boxes 1 and 5. Blue tits roost in boxes 1, 2, 5, 7 and 9. We still haven’t re-fitted the cameras to box 3 and 9. No […]
Box 1 – A pair of blue tits have been visiting with one roosting some nights. Box 2 – Blue tit visits during daytime. There is a blue tit roosting some nights – never the same night as when one roosts in box 1. The same blue tit? Box 3 – Camera not fitted yet […]
Cameras in boxes 2, 4 and 5 are now running again. We are not sure what is using box 2 yet. Box 4 had a brief visit from a blue tit and box 5 had inspections by a pair of blue tits, possibly the same pair as last year.
Blue tits have been vising boxes 1 & 7 with a few nesting wiggles observed in box 1.
We have re-started the servers and have 4 cameras running (boxes 1 & 7 internal and external). Both boxes have blue tits visiting and box 7 has a blue tit roosting overnight. The Axis 2100 in box 1 is misbehaving so the timed upload sometimes shows “No Video”.
Box 1 6 of the 7 great tit chicks fledged within a few minutes of each other at around 09:00 on 26th May. One died a few days prior. Box 2 All 8 blue tit chicks fledged on 2nd June. Box 3 Despite early activity, nothing decided to breed in this box. Box 4 One […]
