RE: OT: Birdbox with Colour Camera

["John Nye" <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a home made bird box with a B&W camera, connected to a
geovision
system so records when movement.

Box is made of oak (from some old flooring that we had to take up) and the
camera is connected using cat5 and baluns to provide power (the box is on
the side of a shed that is attached to the house so just needed a few holes
drilling through walls to get back to the PC running geovision). Camera
came
from Henrys (this was it but not available now
http://www.cctv-centre.co.uk/cctv/3046.htm)
.

Been in place for 2 seasons now and we have had 2 broods of blue tits.
First
year we think (its sometimes difficult to count the eggs) there were 7 eggs
and 5 hatched and last year 7 eggs and all 7 hatched.

Its been great fun as we gave access to various family members so they
could
follow the proceedings. Keep meaning to upgrade the camera so that we get
some night vision but you know how it is ...... too many other things to
do!

John

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> Sent: 16 March 2008 12:33
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> Subject: [ukha_d] OT: Birdbox with Colour Camera
>
> We've put up several birdoxes in the woods at the back of us and now
> we've decided that we'd like to put up a birdbox which incorporates
> a colour camera so that we can watch the birdy going-ons.
> I've looked at several sites which sell such things, both wired and
> wireless, but thought I'd tap into the combined experience and
> wisdom (?) of group members before I part with any money.
> Does anyone have any experience and recommendations to offer? In
> particular I'm torn between the (supposed)ease of wireless (but
> power still needed for the camera!) and the possible problem of
> feeding cables through the outer skin of the house if we go with a
> wired solution. I'm probably going to have to mount the box on the
> front of the house which faces North, and feed any cables directly
> through the front wall into a bedroom or into the loft and then down
> into a bedroom. If anyone has fitted one of these boxes, I'd be
> interested to know how you've done the cabling
> Also, any recommendations for displaying and saving the pictures? I
> have an old Dell Latitude CPx laptop running XP which I'd probably
> like to use, however, I also like the idea of being able to display
> the camera output on our main TV in the lounge so we can use picture-
> in-picture to follow the birdy goings-ons.
> Any help or recommendations will be most welcome.
>
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