The new cameras for fixing to the bird boxes that are now advertised in bird magazines and elsewhere legal. Encapsulated in the wild bird act (something like that) is a bit about the disturbance of birds at or near their nest. Well are these things disturbing the birds or not, if so what are the authorities doing about it.
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Bird box cameras (1 Viewer)
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Marmot
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You will find the cameras have been around for quite a few years now. We have had one for about 4 years and it is still working fine
The camera is put in position in the box before your birds use it....we put ours in about March of that year. Once it is fitted you do not touch the box or the camera. We turn ours on and keep a check when it is nesting time to see if any interest is shown in using the box. Once it gets to this time of the year if the box has or hasn't been used it is fine to clean the box and give the camera a check.
We do have a Great Tit that has been using our box for night roosting for the past 18 months. The cameras do not cause any problems with the birds, they might come up and investigate to see what it is but it is like us with CCTV you forget that it is there. I would imagine that all manufacturers of this cameras will put guidence notes for the time to fix these camera. But I would say that most people would have common sense if they liked the birds that much to be think of fitting a camera .
The camera is put in position in the box before your birds use it....we put ours in about March of that year. Once it is fitted you do not touch the box or the camera. We turn ours on and keep a check when it is nesting time to see if any interest is shown in using the box. Once it gets to this time of the year if the box has or hasn't been used it is fine to clean the box and give the camera a check.
We do have a Great Tit that has been using our box for night roosting for the past 18 months. The cameras do not cause any problems with the birds, they might come up and investigate to see what it is but it is like us with CCTV you forget that it is there. I would imagine that all manufacturers of this cameras will put guidence notes for the time to fix these camera. But I would say that most people would have common sense if they liked the birds that much to be think of fitting a camera .
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