Jane Turner
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Morning... the Sun is out today so you can see there is no Seal kipping on the buoy
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Live seawatching webcam (1 Viewer)
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Jane Turner
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16 Common scoter (well fast black fat blob)
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We need the wind to become more Westerly (left to right) - too close to north at the moment - then sea birds take more time to pass through!
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back on wader cam now.
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17. Gannet
(Arctic tern, manxie and Fulmar were probably visible if anyone was watching)
I'm only counting birds I see on the web feed.
(Arctic tern, manxie and Fulmar were probably visible if anyone was watching)
I'm only counting birds I see on the web feed.
Jane Turner
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Turned on for the day. Now with sound! The occasional pipping is my smoke detector complaining about its battery being flat. Not much happening for now
Your smoke detector is really loud! I just had a tractor go by, with a trailer behind it with a couple of blokes in flourescent overalls. That was about as exciting as it got.
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I was out on the beach with the dogs when they went past.... smoke detector will be disembowelled when I go up next!
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miserable wet gull cam.... now with wader noises
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can you hear any more than me clattering about?
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The sound is working quite well - I can hear birds in the garden... so overhead passage microphone might also be ok.
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Its picking up sound in the front and back gardens... which might give me a problem if I hear a Yellow-browed in a week or two. Its looking at HE3 again..though visibility is shocking. I can tell if its worth having an evening seawatch from here.
There have been two YLGs most days. Its hellishly hard to pinpoint birds with the camera ( its actually 240x mags)
I was trying to make this one an argentatus 4th cal..... didn't make the mistake of seeing it in the field - this is a screen grab
There have been two YLGs most days. Its hellishly hard to pinpoint birds with the camera ( its actually 240x mags)
I was trying to make this one an argentatus 4th cal..... didn't make the mistake of seeing it in the field - this is a screen grab
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Jane Turner
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I'm away on Monday... but I need my laptop, so unless I can rig up a replacement... which is not impossible.... and I can find the right bit of beach depth wise, it will be a matter of luck.
If it really blows I get them in the garden... but one leaf of the buckthorn fill the field of view. I do have a wide angle B&W cam that might work
If it really blows I get them in the garden... but one leaf of the buckthorn fill the field of view. I do have a wide angle B&W cam that might work
John o'Sullivan
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Jane,
I think you have the very early prototype of an idea that I've had for a few years now. Instead of a window you have an LED screen, instead of one view out of a window you chose a feed that fills the screen.
Birding options I've thought of one of the scrapes at minsmere, out the window at Radipole RSPB centre, a lagoon at cley, strumble coast guard look out.
People living in Torquay could view "Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the serengeti"
No more needing to pay lots of money for a room with a view or in fact travel costs and associated nasty carbon footprints to go birding.
For twitching a select few twitchers could go after individual birds, film the bird through their scope, immediately uploading the image so that others could see the bird and tick it without leaving home. This is exactly the same principle as when one birder gets the bird in their scope and another birder comes along looks down scope and sees bird. If you can tick in these circumstances why not an electronic version? The stay at homes pay the twitchers and every-body is happy.
Any-one care to go into business with me?
John
I think you have the very early prototype of an idea that I've had for a few years now. Instead of a window you have an LED screen, instead of one view out of a window you chose a feed that fills the screen.
Birding options I've thought of one of the scrapes at minsmere, out the window at Radipole RSPB centre, a lagoon at cley, strumble coast guard look out.
People living in Torquay could view "Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the serengeti"
No more needing to pay lots of money for a room with a view or in fact travel costs and associated nasty carbon footprints to go birding.
For twitching a select few twitchers could go after individual birds, film the bird through their scope, immediately uploading the image so that others could see the bird and tick it without leaving home. This is exactly the same principle as when one birder gets the bird in their scope and another birder comes along looks down scope and sees bird. If you can tick in these circumstances why not an electronic version? The stay at homes pay the twitchers and every-body is happy.
Any-one care to go into business with me?
John
Jane Turner
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John.... count me in....I really need a Zeiss photoscope thing.... because if you have watched me trying to find a bird on the beach, its excruciating! I have about the same size view though my scope(with much better resolution) with about 40x the field of view. I need sheets of paper under the tripod legs to get elevation right. Using the tilt arm with the lag on the camera is shocking.... but I think I am getting better slowly.
I really need one of those improbable CSI cameras where they touch a wide angle view and zoom in to 3000xwith perfect resolution. The broadcasting loses a lot of the quality too.
Fancy my chances when there are 60K Knot in a close pack
I really need one of those improbable CSI cameras where they touch a wide angle view and zoom in to 3000xwith perfect resolution. The broadcasting loses a lot of the quality too.
Fancy my chances when there are 60K Knot in a close pack
John o'Sullivan
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Not up with CSI I'm afraid, I'm back in the old days of the Wire (just finished series 3). The guys there are amazed by the "simplest" of what were then amazing technological advances.
Technology changes so quickly that it is only a matter of time before the requisite equipment exists.
Imagine getting some-thing onto your self found list working a patch only to discover that some-one hundreds of miles away saw it first.
Technology changes so quickly that it is only a matter of time before the requisite equipment exists.
Imagine getting some-thing onto your self found list working a patch only to discover that some-one hundreds of miles away saw it first.
