Live Hummingbird cam from my backyard - (Live Video Feed)

You have a touch of heaven.

[link to www.ustream.tv]

This is wonderful. Smithsonian has a great recipe. 4 cups water to one cup sugar. Boil until sugar is completely dissolved. Refrigerate 2 hours. Add to feeder. Wash feeder and change water every other day. Only wash feeder with hot water. No solvents. Do not color water.

so cute ;)

Pinned cause I love hummers!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing with us again! This never gets old..

Looks like a Kubrick Production. Staged I tell ya. Staged!

That's the recipe I follow too....I think I got it from their site as well. I refill both of the feeders at least twice a day and wash them out with hot tap water followed by a rinse from the filtered side each time. No chlorine residue and nothing but plain granulated C&H sugar and filtered water,...no dye ever. They eat a lot of bugs around the property which is really nice as well.

Some people have been concerned that feeders are bad for the birds but everything I have read has not backed this up. I live in the "breadbasket" of CA and am surrounded by massive fields of almonds, grapes, apple, cherry, and peach trees....and many flowering plants....based on the poop they leave under the feeders there not on a liquid only diet.

Oh cool,...thank you for the pin.

Very cool. thx.
The frame rate of the camera almost 'stop motions' the wings, never could understand their wing workings until now.

Last Edited by uscrusader1 on 08/07/2014 12:13 PM

Pure genius!
Thanks!

What state is this - where the hell did all the hbirds come from????

u #1

So many of them! Awesome!

So tell me OP...

What do you have for a setup to do this live feed? I may want to try this for the hootie owl that lives in the trees behind my shack.

I live in the central part of California right in the middle of a major agricultural area, (about 1.5 hours east of San Francisco). I have been diligent about keeping the feeders clean and full....was filling one feeder up once every three days or so,...now filling up two feeders twice a day...with about 30+ birds. Some of the birds you can see in the camera, but there's a lot more flying around the yard.

:)

Thank You!

This is really Wonderful; (imo)


I do appreciate your effort;
and, I applaud your kindness to wildlife.

Nice!

There are many different way to skin this cat but
here's my setup:

Streaming service - Ustream
Camera - Axis Q1604 IP camera, (demo cam used for business)
Network - Trendnet POE switch 8 port
Dedicated Computer - Dell Optiplex 9010

I have Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder running on the Dell which is connected to our network. The Adobe FMLE pulls the feed from the camera and sends it directly to the Ustream server(s).

I am a techie so I enjoy making things more complicated than they need be......what's the phrase....If it ain't broken, fix it till it is.

Birds are awesome dude!!!

sugar water kills them


instead cut grapefruits into halves and tack them onto wood framework that they can drink out of the fruit
also the grapefruit attracts bugs that the humming birds can eat

mixing granulated sugar with water and feeding it to them is widespread practice, but wrong and does not strengthen the birds - it weakens them

You are a true gem OP....thanks for doing that!

:D

So, I was watching the humming bird, then walked away and someone was speaking on the webcam. Was it hacked or did you say something?

Watch out for praying mantis!

So with a bit of tech set up right today you can see through the building up to the resolution of the impressions on a penny, locate anything alive by heartbeat, and hear to all conversations by targeting any inatimate object in a room.

You can run, but you can't hide. :D

Thank you for sharing

Are there any males? All I have seen are females.

bump for posting this again. Always nice!

How cool!

your avatar pic is awesome.

5 stars. Awesome, thanks!