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I added one more camera yesterday. This one is for the hummingbirds that frequent our feeder. In the picture below, you can see one feeding.
I’ll keep this up until the end of summer, when the hummers will head south. The camera is shut off after dusk.

Now that the bird houses are empty, what to do with the camera? The obvious choice is stick in on the thistle sock, right? Why not. I’m game for trying something strange.
The camera is facing down from the top of the sock. Until I think of something else, we’ll see how this goes.


Camera circled in red.
Looks like today’s the day to fledge. At this time, I see 3 still there. Two in the picture below.

It appears that the chicks are about to leave home. A lot of excitement has been going on for the past 24 hours. Today may be the day as they are looking quite mature. There is a runt in the brood, so it will be interesting to see if they all leave on the same day.
Having lived in a few other countries besides the USA, and the fact that visitors from other countries visit my sites, I though it was about time to make the sites a little more international.
You’ll notice a drop-down menu on some pages that give the viewer the option of selecting another language. In fact, this blog now has the option at the top section of the post.
Having lived in Germany and Spain does not make me fluent in those languages by a long shot. I’m relying on google to provide the translations. From what I do know, the grammar in the translations are much better than what I’ve seen in the past.
I am working on upgrading the live video to HTML5, which is a better way of viewing live or recorded video on the web.
Not all browsers support HTML5 at this time. The code is written so if an unsupported browser is viewing, it will kick back to FLASH. FLASH is much more CPU intensive.
One good reason to go to HTML5 is that it can be viewed on various smartphones, such as the iPhone 3GS or later.
If you have a problem viewing, I would like to know about it. Please leave a comment.
This afternoon, a new chick entered the world (okay, birdhouse). Pictures will follow.
Press play for live video.
John and I worked on the hive today. There has been signs that they were running out of room. So we added another super to the hive.
Everything looks really well.

All that honey looks tempting!!

The wrens have started a second brood this morning. The first brood in April ended in disaster. Let’s hope we have better luck here. We are in the second day of a week-long heat wave, so I don’t know how that will effect things.

Back from a couple of days in Maine. The birdhouse is in focus now. I noticed last night there was a blurry wren spending the night. I hope that means we’ll have some continued procreation going on.
Also, while we were away, the beehivecam froze up. All’s well now. There’s some propolis on the lens causing a little blurriness. That needs to be cleaned off, which I’ll do in the evening when the temp goes down.
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