We got a nice 8 or so inches of snow today. Because it tends to drift up in some spots we need to keep the paths to the feeder stations cleaned up. I suppose in year past they would use a shovel or simply keep the feeders where they could be filled with out worrying about trudging through 3 feet of snow.
\nWe chose a spot for the main feeder station that is right outside our bedroom window. This servers 2 purposes. One, we have a nice view of the feeder station and the bushes which form cover around it, and it is close enough for the web cam.<\/p>\n
The cam on the other side of the house was hit by falling ice early in the month but we figured that would happen. So in October we built a new station with the idea of moving the camera. One thing has led to another and the cam is still not up but we hope to fix that soon.<\/p>\n
We picked up a nice little computer to run the cam. Its a lot like our pavilion media center in that it has a dual core 2.2GHz processor and a gig of ram and came with xp media edition. The model number is s3200t and it is really small. The CD\/DVD drive is sideways. Crazy. But it is super fast and does not take up much room. It cost less that $500.00. Our first computer, if I can remember, was a 265 processor with a 20 meg hard drive. I think we had something like 120 megs of ram but I could be wrong about that, after all it was a number of years ago. The point is the stupid thing cost us about $1600.00 and that was with dos 3.1.<\/p>\n
The really funny thing is I have a little flash drive used for small files and it has more space than the hard drive on that computer. And it cost 5 bucks but I digress.
\nWe should get the cat 5 cable, yes we use cables, installed tomorrow and then its as simple as setting up the camera and the mike. Then we just wait for the birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"