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About Birdcam
The Birdcam is an Aiptek Pencam Trio VGA attached via a USB cable, looking out the window from the computer room. Suspended from the ceiling, used alone the view is like this:
Which obviously doesn't work too well. So it has a pair of 7x35 binoculars in front of it, nothing very high tech:
Occasionally the 7x35 is replaced with an 18x50 pair for a zoomed in view. But then you can't see the birds perched on the nearby branches.
The Bird Feeders
The main feeder contains black oil sunflower seed, with
four perches and a tray. The perches are used mostly by chickadees, titmice,
finches, and nuthatches. They are sloppy and some seeds fall onto the tray
below, which is mostly used by cardinals (in the photo), doves, juncos,
and finches.
The bottom section contains suet, which is mostly used by downy woodpeckers and red bellied woodpeckers (in the photo), though nuthatches and wrens visit it as well.
The razor wire draped around the dogwood tree discourages
the squirrels from jumping onto the tray.
The post feeder surrounds the lamp post which prevents the squirrels from climbing up the post onto the tray. Mixed feed is in the birdhouse shaped feeder and spread around the tray, and nyger thistle is in the separate compartment on the right. Used mostly by juncos (in the photo), sparrows, doves, and bluejays.
The
hummingbird feeder