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A day in the life of ... My Yard!
Feb. 10th, 2007 08:42 pmWe had been wondering how much activity the various feeders in the yard get.
Around noon today, I set up my camera using the time lapse controller (and hanging it upside down was the simplest way to keep it up out of the way where the cats wouldn't disturb it) and configured it for a photo every 2 minutes (the fastest it can time lapse).
Then I made a movie out of the photos: 640x480 (18MB) or 320x240 (4.5MB). It starts at about noon and runs until 5:40p, when it was dark enough that the flash was firing, and but still light enough to see outside (I actually took another 30 frames beyond that because I was in the basement sorting books, but you can't see anything on them anyway). The pole on the left has four feeders - a tube feeder full of niger thistle (front left, black seed), a tube feeder of hulled medium sunflower chips (back left, tan seed), a suet feeder (small hanging block back right), and a big feeder full on no-waste mixed seed (front right). At the far right of the frame is a corn cob feeder hanging in the tree - watch for squirrels hanging off of it. I'm also somewhat amused by the track the squirrels have from the tree to the feeder area.
We've also decided that if we want to do any gardening, it probably won't be in the side yard because there isn't that much continuous sunlight.
I'm going to try this again looking more towards the front of the house, and without the window screen in the way. I need to find the camera manual and see if there's a way to imprint a time stamp on the pictures.
Around noon today, I set up my camera using the time lapse controller (and hanging it upside down was the simplest way to keep it up out of the way where the cats wouldn't disturb it) and configured it for a photo every 2 minutes (the fastest it can time lapse).
Then I made a movie out of the photos: 640x480 (18MB) or 320x240 (4.5MB). It starts at about noon and runs until 5:40p, when it was dark enough that the flash was firing, and but still light enough to see outside (I actually took another 30 frames beyond that because I was in the basement sorting books, but you can't see anything on them anyway). The pole on the left has four feeders - a tube feeder full of niger thistle (front left, black seed), a tube feeder of hulled medium sunflower chips (back left, tan seed), a suet feeder (small hanging block back right), and a big feeder full on no-waste mixed seed (front right). At the far right of the frame is a corn cob feeder hanging in the tree - watch for squirrels hanging off of it. I'm also somewhat amused by the track the squirrels have from the tree to the feeder area.
We've also decided that if we want to do any gardening, it probably won't be in the side yard because there isn't that much continuous sunlight.
I'm going to try this again looking more towards the front of the house, and without the window screen in the way. I need to find the camera manual and see if there's a way to imprint a time stamp on the pictures.
