21.7.12

WebCam Day 1

I won't give you a running commentary on my WebCam as you can check it yourself but day one was slightly interesting.

It rained all morning so no birds. The afternoon was damp and grey: no birds.

Later in the afternoon a slug slithered into the frame, crawled up to the bird seed and tucked in before running off into the grass.

I ran the archive slide show and there it is, at break neck speed, rain evaporating and a slug running around!!

I hope to see birds in the morning!

DW

20.7.12

My WebCam Live ... try it!

Try this link to see my webcam ... untested as I upload this!

WebCam Live!

Since I am staying at home for a while, I am trying to turn my house into a home. One of the things I am doing is setting up two or three feeding stations for birds. Since the birds here seem to feed at around 5 - 6 am when I am usually in bed, I thought I'd set up a webcam so that I could see which birds are eating the food.

I wanted to be able to leave the camera on while I am away in another room, say; and watch it remotely. Just a bit of research showed me a variety of solutions and within a couple of minutes I had set up a webcam and was streaming it live around the world. At the time of writing it is 11:15 am and raining and there are no birds here.

What my current cam shows is the patio outside my office with a small pile of seeds in the centre of the image. I have asked the camera to take a photo every 20 minutes too so it will build up an archive of images to see what slithers in!

The solution I have chosen, My Webcam Broadcaster, is free and very simple to use and I am exploring a reasonably cheap, ie not free, solution that will give me enhanced features such as switching on only when there is some kind of activity.

Take a look here: http://www.eyespyfx.co.uk/livelist.php ... click on the letter D, then the number 2 or 3 and you will see my webcam with the name Duncan Mac Webcam ... click on it. If you are asked for a password, it's welcome.

Please take a look and you never know what you might see ... some birds, yes; but I have no idea which!

DW

19.7.12

Quagmire!

I took a look at my new raspberry tree this morning and as I walked across the lawn, all I could feel and here was QUAGMIRE. The soil around here is absolutely sodden. There will be no apples from my garden this year, there will be no cherries and there will be no blackberries this year.

There are a few well formed raspberries on my tree but whether they will ever get the chance to ripen we will have to wait and see: weather and birds are the enemies! Moreover, the dream of jars of my own raspberry jam have been postponed for a year!

DW

18.7.12

This is Lunch!

I need exercise and a healthy diet. The diet is fine but because of our rotten and do called summer weather, getting exercise is not so easy.

Here is my lunch, then: three fruit salad and home made banana tea bread.

Champion

DW