CAYSA's BIRDHOUSE CAM

Yes, more inspection!! Look how it is testing the size with its wings!

VIDEO

This is great!

I love this view into a birdhouse!! Looking forward to interesting happenings..

Ricky wrote:This is great!

I love this view into a birdhouse!! Looking forward to interesting happenings..

What can I do to make the birds nest there??
I already brushed one dog and left the hair outside But what else?

you need now to wait the right time

The birdhouse should face the best direction possible - wind and rain
should not be able to get into it. So it should not face the direction
from where bad weather usually comes.
The birds usually like to sit/land close to the nest. If there are branches close to the birdhouse everything es okay. If not it might be a good idea to attach a bar of wood (or branch or similar) either on the tree or on the birdhouse.
Until the chicks hatch you there should be as little disturbance arounf the biordhkuse as possible. Otherwise the parents might abandon the nest.

The rest is up to the bird...

someone knocking there, is it woodpecker?

i guess it is ansa who is barking there

It was Ansa yes!!

The birdhouse is not more than 5 meters from the house and the birdfeeder. It is in the exact same spot on a birch trunk where a birdhouse has always been. The old one was starting to rotten so it was a good time to change it. It is facing the house (which gives protection too) and it is facing away from the most usual spring and summer wind direction.
About leaving it alone and in peace... hmmm hahaha.... The dogs are everywhere of course but I guess the birds are used to them as it has not affected their nesting earlier either. I just tried to count the birdhouses we have here, must be at least 10 of them.
So... ok... seems that we have done the best we can. Lets hope the birds will like it too.

The knocking you hear right now is the woodpecker, it is eating at the birdfeeder a few meters away from the cam.

i dont hear knocking, but some ravens voices.......oops ravens are from boar cam

aa,now i hear kopkopkop kopp

where you put this birdhouse? before the house or backward the house? can you see birdhouse all the time?

there was somone on the top of birdhouse,cracking voices was loud but no-one was seen
oi what happend? cam is offline now??????????????????????

and its working again, blue tit was inspecting and sit on the hole

AllyKass wrote:and its working again, blue tit was inspecting and sit on the hole

My computer went so slow, I had to restart the camera too, sry!!

But I got a VIDEO, the bird stayed quite long this time!

now one bird was down in the nest and the other peeked in,it dont liked in the nest one

I see that bluetit cheks the light what comes from down down, i think the light spots has to cover with something or they dont nest there

caysa wrote:

AllyKass wrote:and its working again, blue tit was inspecting and sit on the hole

My computer went so slow, I had to restart the camera too, sry!!

But I got a VIDEO, the bird stayed quite long this time!

seems this house like to it

robin wrote:I see that bluetit cheks the light what comes from down down, i think the light spots has to cover with something or they dont nest there

It is infra red light, they cannot see it That is why the pic looks black and white.
The birds are more intersted in the camera, they need to know it is safe, I guess.

The last knocking we heard - on top of the house - was a grey headed woodepecker
I have not seen one this spring yet. I saw that it looked at the birdfeeder..... and now it actually came there.
The birdfeeder cam is offline - if I have two cams going my puter says NO NO NO

But I got some pics, I hope....

This is taken through the window here, I could not go closer.... so my books and some plants in front of the window was a bit disturbing.

I think Robin means that there is a (small) gap between the "floor" and the "side walls" - those white areas in the pictures - where daylight gets into the birdhouse... It it hard to tell how big those gaps really are. If they are big it might be a good idea to cover them somehow...

Ricky wrote:I think Robin means that there is a (small) gap between the "floor" and the "side walls" - those white areas in the pictures - where daylight gets into the birdhouse... It it hard to tell how big those gaps really are. If they are big it might be a good idea to cover them somehow...

if bird not like that lights,then they ownself will cover there.

Ahaa, ok.... the gaps are really really tiny! They guy that sold the cam also made the house and he has made hundreds....
But of course - even just duct tape at the bottom outside could do the trick if necessary.

I will add the Picus canus pics here as it was heard on this cam

The first and the last pic are taken through the window - not ideal at all as it was nowing too.... The other pics I took from outside trying to hide on the veranda... The sno fall did not make the pics better but for sure it is a female Greyheaded woodpecker... ?

caysa wrote:Ahaa, ok.... the gaps are really really tiny! They guy that sold the cam also made the house and he has made hundreds....
But of course - even just duct tape at the bottom outside could do the trick if necessary.

Tiny gaps don´t matter. As Ally said, the nest will cover them anyway.

Nice video and pics of the woodpecker!!

caysa wrote:but for sure it is a female Greyheaded woodpecker... ?

Yes - no red feathers on the head

you got good pictures of wp

Look at this pic... it is already dark outside and still the bottom gaps look like there is light coming through. The nest opening hole shows no light!! I think it must have something to do with the infra red light....

I will close the cam for the night as it is already pitch dark and no bird will come anyway before morning.

caysa wrote:Look at this pic... it is already dark outside and still the bottom gaps look like there is light coming through. The nest opening hole shows no light!! I think it must have something to do with the infra red light...