Birdcam 2008

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For the sharp eyed of you you may have noticed that we have new visitors!

However instead of it being birdies we have a spider in the box who likes to run across the camera around midnight!! LOL

For those interested I have moved onto a new venture…. www.the-pier.co.uk contains articles and information about the piers around the UK!

The camera will go off line at the end of June but we will be back in 2009 having learnt a lot from 2008….thanks for staying tuned!

I have this evening opened up the box and removed the nest and dead chicks. There where also a couple of unhatched eggs.

I have used boiling water to clean the box and birdcam is now broadcasting again, although now obviously the box is empty.

Fingers crossed for a second set of chicks this year but I feel it will be a slim chance.

See how the chick fights its way up onto its mother……bless!

The latest video shows a caterpillar making a bid for freedom as mum and dad have missed feeding him to the chicks!

Since going live on the 12 of February 2008 we’ve had 2273 unique people visit the site creating 12949 hits.

I’ve posted 50 blog postings and the birdcam has captured 20,000 video clips totaling 16GB worth of disk space!

Thank you all for your support, especially those who have donated towards the hosting costs.

You can use the video archive link to see all of the videos captured, not just the ones that I publish to youtube but beware that I am geting about a 1000 new ones each day at the moment!

The below video clip shows how the mother deal with the chicks who want a no.2!

We seem to have 6 chicks although as you can see the nest activity is quite frantic and you have to guess when the mouths are open.

Not all of the chicks seem to open their mouths everytime the parents return to the nest which makes it even harder to tell!

You get quite a good view at the size of the chick in this particular clip. One thing that I’ll research for next year is a better camera where I can maybe remotely adjust the focus. I manually set the focus when I built the bird box using a tape measure as “a bird” and focused it to look clear!

Welcome to all new visitors.

If you are interested in seeing the construction of the birdcam then please look at the “About Birdcam” link on the right hand side.

You can also access the blog details back from when it started in February, the current live picture as well as all videos that the camera has captured using the menu on the right.

As promised I’ve uploaded more videos this morning from the action over the last 24 hours. Enjoy and please send this blog onto your friends to view. Since I set the blog up I’ve had 11′000 hits from all around the world!

As promised here is our first chick….more videos to follow as we have more than 1 now!

All the hard effort with setting up the camera, managing the hosting and e-mail services have finally paid off!