A nice view on the underside of an old chair outside our house. We discovered them hiding in there after my son sat on the chair and the wasps came rushing out. We used one of his toy trucks to wheel the webcam right underneath.
Wasps
Now with bubbles!
The light goes on and the bubbles appear when an animal walks by... here's the setup:
Mother wren feeding her chicks
We mounted the webcam in front of our birdhouse, left it on motion sensing, and caught the mother wren bringing insects to her chicks! This is a house wren. We built the birdhouse from really simple plans that we found online.
A Spooky Response to Our Green Screen Challenge
After our not-so-impressive attempt at a green screen background for possums, we posted our video online in case anyone else wanted to try. We have a response! Someone named 'Jacques DuLong' has done an amazing job - we had to look carefully to check that it really was our possum. The spooky thing... after all this technology, the new background looks almost identical to our backyard, right down to the pair of lawn statues! Welcome home, possum!
Three weeks of a robin's nest
An almost-daily view for three weeks (click to enlarge)
hatching
We mounted the webcam just over a nest and filmed by motion sensing or timelapse nearly every day. The last baby flew out of the nest yesterday.
A fox!
We had no idea there were foxes in the neighborhood. This gorgeous animal is a grey fox who popped by at 2:01am.
(bait: some flowers... we were hoping to attract some birds at sunrise, which didn't work)
wider view video | motion photo
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, and a simple Mac program called 
, set up outside. This was the only part we didn't already have. We wired it up to a 
so we could plug it into a wall outlet. We added a tin can, with both ends cut off, around the detector. This narrowed its range so that only a warm animal at the bait would trigger the light to turn on. The computer records 5 seconds of video when the webcam sees the light go on or off.
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