My
Raspberry Pi at the bottom of the garden is now monitoring an unmodified XBox webcam pointing at a fence break, rather than the
mice visiting the compost heap. This uses the
Motion software to hopefully catch anything walking past - like the pheasants I've seen using this route.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YX9kmvVHGqs/UTuYOdBDWbI/AAAAAAAABQI/sGRvXTSwgso/s1600/20130301-09-44-27-03-pheasant.jpg) | ![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mBXdKtLyDPI/UTuWpZLJzVI/AAAAAAAABPg/3eiCnXFe_Oc/s1600/20130301-08-45-20-04-pheasant.jpg) |
Mr. Pheasant | Mr. Pheasant and two wives in two |
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wbNsDVOjvyc/UTuW5mxxpcI/AAAAAAAABPo/EIqWqjW6mRo/s1600/20130301-09-46-56-11-pheasant.jpg) | ![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UlYw_mqwddc/UTuYyuIoSKI/AAAAAAAABQQ/4f-8i4pS5KE/s1600/20130306-10-18-03-02-pheasant.jpg) |
Pheasant on a sunny day | Quite a regular visitor |
While most of the images so far have been of pheasants, there were a few surprises too.
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O7GZjC5PcNI/UTuXO6Lu_4I/AAAAAAAABPw/R-1BF7xxMjA/s1600/20130303-12-39-44-18-bird.jpg) | ![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AE5fFWGWv9Y/UTuXkkDR1cI/AAAAAAAABP4/WvHC6A58w9g/s1600/20130303-11-35-09-13-horse.jpg) |
Action shot! A sparrow? | Horses - wasn't expecting that! |
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bLsYIKvI7Sw/UTuXzpt7IkI/AAAAAAAABQA/rBgcgJTUatM/s1600/20130305-10-42-02-04-black-bird.jpg) |
A black-bird on the wing |
Here's a shot of the
compost-cam and the replacement XBox trail-cam with the crude wooden shelter I built to keep off the worst of the weather. The camera is connected to my
Raspberry Pi in the garden running Motion, monitoring a second camera in a bird box.
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sC50QF3AxIU/UTubD-aW3iI/AAAAAAAABQY/W0yoJfbvDtI/s320/compost-cam.jpeg) | ![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sv5SI2kbiQs/UTubIFNV8jI/AAAAAAAABQg/zCIKwYDsUOY/s320/trail-cam.jpeg) |
Compost-cam
(modified Xbox Live Vision with IR LEDs) | Trail-cam
(Unmodified Xbox Live Vision) |
Update: Here's a
photo round up for the following two months.
Nice!
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