I have found a unique diversion while at home on quarantine.
Around April 21 We noticed some birds flying into a bucket in our breezeway. We have one of those detached garage connected by a short breezeway to the back door of the house. In the corner by the wood fence and the person entry door of the garage I had piled some scrap sticks and a stack of two five gallon buckets; the top bucket was half full with some more scraps of lumber and a set of wind chimes needing repair partially wrapped in a plastic bag and a piece of copper pipe the plumber had cut out of the house, leaking.
Anyway the birds were flying in with scraps of straw and sticks and leaving so it became evident that they were building a nest.
Upon searching the internet we determined that these were Carolina Wrens who liked nice small boxes low off the ground to build nests.
After a few days they had completed a nest which was made of a lot of leaves and straw and sticks and angled back to the garage wall. By the 27th one egg had appeared deep in the cavity of the nest and one more each day for 3 more days. I could only see when I pushed my head back against the garage door and wall and I never knew when the momma was on the nest.
Given the location three feet from my back door I got a pan-tilt-zoom wifi internet camera from the Jungle. And installed in on a support I built that was just above the bucket and angled slightly to align to the cavity which as I said was angled back.
The eggs hatched on the fifteenth and 16th with us keeping daily tags on the progress with the camera.
The camera has motion detection and records a clip when something happens, we see a lot of feeding. Its powered by a 10-foot USB power cable I just slipped through the garage door edge. The clips are recorded to the internal SD card, it has infrared night vision. Here's one from today - the mom comes, sits on the edge of the bucket chirps to get attention and the kids all turn their hungry mouths skyward. Mom feeds them with a little grub worm. Enjoy the video, I have lots more. Some with Dad feeding mom in the nest who feeds the kids. We are expecting fledging around the 25th or 26th!
Around April 21 We noticed some birds flying into a bucket in our breezeway. We have one of those detached garage connected by a short breezeway to the back door of the house. In the corner by the wood fence and the person entry door of the garage I had piled some scrap sticks and a stack of two five gallon buckets; the top bucket was half full with some more scraps of lumber and a set of wind chimes needing repair partially wrapped in a plastic bag and a piece of copper pipe the plumber had cut out of the house, leaking.
Anyway the birds were flying in with scraps of straw and sticks and leaving so it became evident that they were building a nest.
Upon searching the internet we determined that these were Carolina Wrens who liked nice small boxes low off the ground to build nests.
After a few days they had completed a nest which was made of a lot of leaves and straw and sticks and angled back to the garage wall. By the 27th one egg had appeared deep in the cavity of the nest and one more each day for 3 more days. I could only see when I pushed my head back against the garage door and wall and I never knew when the momma was on the nest.
Given the location three feet from my back door I got a pan-tilt-zoom wifi internet camera from the Jungle. And installed in on a support I built that was just above the bucket and angled slightly to align to the cavity which as I said was angled back.
The eggs hatched on the fifteenth and 16th with us keeping daily tags on the progress with the camera.
The camera has motion detection and records a clip when something happens, we see a lot of feeding. Its powered by a 10-foot USB power cable I just slipped through the garage door edge. The clips are recorded to the internal SD card, it has infrared night vision. Here's one from today - the mom comes, sits on the edge of the bucket chirps to get attention and the kids all turn their hungry mouths skyward. Mom feeds them with a little grub worm. Enjoy the video, I have lots more. Some with Dad feeding mom in the nest who feeds the kids. We are expecting fledging around the 25th or 26th!
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