About a month ago, I picked up a new GoPro Hero 9. I wanted to try it out as a feeder cam and see how it compared to BirdPhotoBooth 2.0. I thought I'd do a quick synopsis of the good and the bad and a comparison between the two. I should mention that I'm brand new to the GoPro … [Read more...]
New to Me! Pine Siskins Visit
This winter I joined a bunch of different backyard birdwatching groups on Facebook and I've seen people all throughout the South talking about sick Pine Siskins on their feeders. There were huge salmonella outbreaks and folks had to take their feeders in for 2 weeks or longer to … [Read more...]
New Sighting – White Throated Sparrow
I'm really working on getting better at identifying sparrows and learning more about their behavior. For a long time, I just wasn't interested in them. Small, stripey, brownish mostly ground feeding bird, sparrow, moving on. I'm clearly partial to woodpeckers, but I've been … [Read more...]
Squirrel Proofing Platform Feeder Cam
This is Steve's first attempt at putting a baffle on the TPost where we connected the bird photo booth after his first adjustment. We need to have it close enough to the platform feeder so we can get good close up shots. Yet, we have to make sure that squirrels cannot get up … [Read more...]
New Bird Photo Booth setup
The tripod that I got with the bird photo booth is good quality, better than I initially thought, however, it's challenging to squirrel proof it AND it's somewhat limiting in terms of using the feeder on the angle bracket. Our birds have a big platform and some birds just didn't … [Read more...]
10 Days of Bird Photo Booth Trials
Timeline of our 10 days of experimenting with the Bird Photo Booth 2.0. All these pictures are without any filters and just the unprocessed originals from that day's photo shoot. Day 1 - 3/16/2021 Motion Detection Photo Exposure +3Top Macro Lens Had angle bracket … [Read more...]
