Weekend Experiment - Feeder Cam - Day 2

Sunday proved to be a slightly brighter day. Still no sunshine, but at least it didn't pour down non-stop!

The better weather obviously meant more visits to the feeders. Here's a quick clip.

I haven't had a chance to look at the footage collected today. If there's anything interesting I'll share it with you guys.

So, conclusions from the experiment...

• The feeder had plenty of other space for the birds to feed other than in front of the camera!
• The idea works quite well using the camera with the wide angle lens. Slight downside is that this gives a very shallow depth of field so the difficulty is getting the minimum and maximum focal distance in the right place.
• The camera had infra red LEDs built in and as both Saturday and Sunday were both reasonably dull the IR switched on bleeding out alot of the colour from much of the collected footage.
• Cameras fitted inside bird feeders can cause sea sickness! Every time a bird jumps on the feeder (especially the Collared Doves) the background wobbles all over the place which detracts from the subject.

Next step....

• I'll design a feeder with a single feeding position.
• Either use a camera without infra red LEDs fitted or tape over the LEDs in the existing camera. This should vastly improve the colour.
• Fix the new feeder to a solid post. This will help prevent motion sickness whilst watching the footage!

Until next time!....