I imagine that some of you are getting bored with this, so I won’t post another 20 minutes of hummingbird video. But I will post a couple of things. For instance, I cut a frame from the videos at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day. You can clearly see the level of nectar in the feeder drop. They don’t seem to eat a lot.
John wondered (quite rightly) whether I could get the camera positioned in a better position so I could get something other than the near silhouette images that I had yesterday. I’d have to move the camera outdoors, which means I’d have to make a better enclosure. But tonight the setting sun was fairly low and sidelit the birds in a couple of my late captures. Here is a late still frame…
And some of the video shot late in the day…
Mark: We were at the HQ of the American Horticultural Society yesterday. I was talking to a guy who makes bird feeders and I told him of your hummingbeird exploits. Very cool.
Hey Bill, that sounds like a fun day out with the family. I am having a lot of fun with this, trying to exchange hours of TV and Facebook into hours spent hacking, including even maybe a radio project or two. But the hummingbird project has been keeping me busy, I’ve been tweaking the motion detection routines. I comfort myself with the knowledge that the video gets copied back to my server machines using WiFi. That’s radio, right? 🙂