{"id":1779,"date":"2016-04-10T01:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T23:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:37:58","slug":"first-day-with-birdcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"First day with BirdCam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I heard some strange noises outside my office window. To my big surprise I then noticed that there was a bird&#8217;s nest growing on the window sill. It did not take long until I even saw the new tenant moving in: <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1793\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160408_090258_800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160408_090258_800-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"Outside my office window...\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160408_090258_800-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160408_090258_800-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160408_090258_800-400x431.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160408_090258_800.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside my office window&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So far I have identified the birds as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Song_thrush\" target=\"_blank\">Song thrushs<\/a> and the nest was steadily growing until about lunch time. After lunch no bird returned and I was almost afraid that something might have scared them off. However, I still planned to install a webcam to watch the nest during the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening I set up a left-over <em>Raspberry Pi Model A<\/em> and an simple USB webcam. It&#8217;s running <em>Raspbian Jessie<\/em> and <em>fswebcam<\/em> and <em>curl<\/em> using a <em>cron<\/em>-ed script file. The camera itself is duct-taped to the inside of my office window.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1779-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/webm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160409_birdcam.webm?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160409_birdcam.webm\">http:\/\/www.sciencetronics.com\/greenphotons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20160409_birdcam.webm<\/a><\/video><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I heard some strange noises outside my office window. To my big surprise I then noticed that there was a bird&#8217;s nest growing on the window sill. 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