Posted on 06/28/2025 10:44:32 AM PDT by Chickensoup
I want a recommendation for a high definition camera that I can mount on my window, plug in, and use to stream my bird feeders on line. Because I'm that dull!
I have 10 feeders and would love to share them with friends in real time. So it has to go to the internet and I have to figure out how to get it there. I expect it is not a you tube thing.
All advice appreciated!
I have not. Perhaps I will.
My best AI sources are my beloved Freepers.
Thank you.
Cats love to watch bird-feeding channels, believe it or not.
>>https://stock.adobe.com/stock-photo/id/1305658964
was incredible! Beautiful piece of work.
The video was also amazing. You felt like you could get inside the hawk’s head. Really loved it.
I keep my feeding area in a closed in corner just to discourage hawks hanging around with a different idea of dinner than mine.
30 years after my video, I’m not up to the work of keeping up the feeding area. I set up a platform at a height just under my library window so I could keep bags of birdseed, now shelled peanuts, in a box near the window. I’d just open and scoop several times a day. Then all the opening and closing finally did in the latch and we haven’t gotten the handyman to replace it, so I just set up an outdoor table and tied a small ladder to it under the next window. I drop the food onto the table and around it for the visitors who can’t climb the ladder. Means I can’t sit in an easy chair to be at eye level with the munchers, but I still check them throughout the night.
Night Visitors - Joseph Blanchard - Whimsical Foray
https://youtu.be/4Fz_w97bt4s
I put out 30 lbs. of seed every two to four weeks in six large feeders, and 4 pounds of suet. Two hummingbird feeders from May to end of October.
We all eat well! LOL
dull ?
sounds peaceful and relaxing.
id binge watch it on youtube.
I momentarily contemplated creating an Only Fans page for my desert tortoise. I spent a lot of money on her habitat. It’s only fair she pay her way.
They are wonderful little creatures.
You won’t find a camera that will give a nice detailed look at all 10 feeders at once, unless they are all tightly packed together. I would go with a pan-tilt (and possibly zoom) camera so that your friends can zoom in on the feeder they want to see up close. Alternatively, multiple cameras. It’s important that the cameras be close to the feeders, preferably 10 feet or less. If you can’t get that close, a zoom can be very helpful. Most cameras are easy to access on any smartphone through their proprietary app, and you would just give your friends the password. Some have web access options too.
Another warning is that most security/web cameras use very high levels of compression to reduce bandwidth and file size. Still pictures look tack sharp, but motion introduces significant artifacts/pixelation. Small birds can be a real mess in that case as they never sit still.
No cameras here.....
But I do love birds. They bring joy to my life and one can feel God’s presence in my garden and yard. All kind of critters live here
Ditto WYZE. I have 6 of them.
elgato facecam https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Facecam-Conferencing-Streaming-Fixed-Focus/dp/B0973DV11T
they are wonderful!
Chickensoup wrote: “Because I want a view of all ten feeders and the birdbath and the flowering dogwood as well as the wildlife. It is a pretty and active site”
Understand but you will give up definition. My wife’s wifi birdfeeder provides remarkable close ups of feeding birds.
“”Because I’m that dull!””
I’m an avid eagle cam watcher, have been for years (decades?)... and I can guarantee you that it is anything but dull. Birds are hilarious. A lot like people.
If it was me, I’d email or contact some of the experienced, live-stream folks that have a cam setup and ask them for guidance. Some of them will no doubt be happy to help you.
I rigged a video camera pointed at my bird bath. The yard had lots of those Brazilian Pepper trees with the red pepper berries. The bird bath would be lined with Robins drinking like crazy after feasting on the berries. There was the rare Catbird there too. It was tres cool.
I'm guessing seven. What's the answer?
You know the next growth career will be people who organize and fix electronics.
A person who will turn off all the trackers on my phone, on my car.
Who will put together different systems for different things like this vanity system or television or stereo systems.
who will put together stand alone video security systems.
Who will put together systems to foil drone overflights
Who will put together systems for the disabled at home.
People who are artful and can make/use black boxes like in the eighties to pull together different items to make things work. Have a company that makes innards of medical equipment, those folks can really make chips sing.
Real hands on engineers.
People would pay good money.
what a fun thing to watch!
YouTube has several of those kinds of videos. The cats all line up on the bed and watch them. Squirrels, too.
My son bought me a bird feeder and a bird house with cameras in them that I can watch on my cellphone.
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