Cheshire Birder
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It has been really aweful weather this afternoon with several roads near me flooded!!
CB
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Very busy at the bird feeder today! (1 Viewer)
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It has been really aweful weather this afternoon with several roads near me flooded!!
CB
Thanks, lots of little clips stuck together.
Hi BFB, thanks, its actually in standard definition, and recorded on a digital photo camera that does video as well. I record it on the best frame rate and size, but it eats the memory up. A five min clip is nearly 500mb, then the file on imovie was over 5gb when I edited all the videos together. Then when I export the video its nearly anther 1gb. Upload to you tube was nearly 4 hours!
All files from this video deleted now, but have another video i want to upload again tonight of the goldfinches on their feeder. Will leave it uploading over night again!
Worth it in the end though
theconstantwalker
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Great clip Will very clear. It has given me the idea to put my camcorder out near the feeders and just take a chance on getting decent footage. :t:
Shirley Roulston
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theconstantwalker
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I wish i was with you today lol. Very loud thunder, lightening and torrential rain at work in Manchester. :storm::storm:
Best of luck to you and look forward to seeing your footage. I had my camera connected to a lanyard which was hooked onto the top of the ladder as it was quite windy at times and didn't wan the camera to fall off the top of the ladder. Well there is a solution to this, its called a.........tripod! But I didn't have one so step ladders it was for me!
SPINNEYGAL
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A Few Years Ago Where We Used To Live We Had Trouble With Neighbours. I Connected My Video Camera Up To My Video Recorder And I Recorded Onto A Video Tape For Up To 8 Hours, When The Camera Tape Stopped The Video Carried On Recording Until That Tape Ran Out, Gave Excellent Pictures Through The Window As Well. I Might Try It At Home On My Bird Feeders As Well.
catbasket
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I had the chance to sit and watch the feeders from first thing this morning for just over an hour.
First visitor I saw was a solitary blue tit at 6.53am. A few more blues (12 maximum) plus a smaller group of great tits (7) were next, and by 7.15 there were also goldfinches (8) and greenfinches (5). A wood pigeon (3) and a collared dove (2) arrived within seconds of each other around 7.20, but as usual they just sat and watched for a while before feeding.
I was starting to wonder if the house sparrows had overslept when the first arrived at 7.40am. Just three minutes later there were too many sparrows to count (twenty-ish?), plus a nuthatch (2), closely followed by a robin at around 7:50am.
Not a bad start to the day!
A couple of pics "through the window" (and from the sofa) to show you my 'comfortable' approach to garden birding
Yesterday:
This morning, the same window, after I'd re-arranged a few feeders:
[The blue pole the feeder is on is a 74p broom handle from a high street diy store]
First visitor I saw was a solitary blue tit at 6.53am. A few more blues (12 maximum) plus a smaller group of great tits (7) were next, and by 7.15 there were also goldfinches (8) and greenfinches (5). A wood pigeon (3) and a collared dove (2) arrived within seconds of each other around 7.20, but as usual they just sat and watched for a while before feeding.
I was starting to wonder if the house sparrows had overslept when the first arrived at 7.40am. Just three minutes later there were too many sparrows to count (twenty-ish?), plus a nuthatch (2), closely followed by a robin at around 7:50am.
Not a bad start to the day!
A couple of pics "through the window" (and from the sofa) to show you my 'comfortable' approach to garden birding
Yesterday:
This morning, the same window, after I'd re-arranged a few feeders:
[The blue pole the feeder is on is a 74p broom handle from a high street diy store]
SPINNEYGAL
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Good Clear Picture Of The Blue Tit
My Birds Are Coming After I Have Left For Work Now So It Is Weekend Watching Only Now
My Birds Are Coming After I Have Left For Work Now So It Is Weekend Watching Only Now
bongofury
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Spot on.
Nice arrangement with the feeders! Autumn is when our garden comes to life, but after October, the downside is the leaving the house for work before its light and not returning til after its gone dark again.
mary99
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What a cracker, you lucky thing!
Anything you do to attract them. I can see they are on a peanut feeder, anything else?
Mary
Bananafishbones
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Correct with the Chaffinch
Wait till you get the first Fieldfare & Redwings.... awesome :t::t:
Bananafishbones
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Cracking few hours in the garden.... with the camera. The neighbours must think I am weird, snook behind the shed with a camera pointing into the trees...lol
2 Nuthatches again (3 days running.... yes!!), 9 Blue tits, 3 Great tits, 2 Coal tits, all going mad about the feeders. Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Dunnock, Robin, Colloared doves, Woodpigeons, Blackbirds, House Sparrows, Chaffinch (3 females), and a Sparrowhawk attack right in front of me.
Tea time.... better go and help
Piccies later
Dave
2 Nuthatches again (3 days running.... yes!!), 9 Blue tits, 3 Great tits, 2 Coal tits, all going mad about the feeders. Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Dunnock, Robin, Colloared doves, Woodpigeons, Blackbirds, House Sparrows, Chaffinch (3 females), and a Sparrowhawk attack right in front of me.
Tea time.... better go and help
Piccies later
Dave
bongofury
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A list is really worthwhile doing, whether it be on paper, or in an Excel spreadsheet. I record my sightings using the RSPB software I got bought one Christmas, but I'm sure there's a free-to-use website that someone could recommend?
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