I thought it might be interesting to see if I could rig up my Raspberry
Pi with a webcam and a wi-fi dongle to look for wildlife visiting our bird
table.
Here it is! This was in a sub-urban/ semi-rural area on the edge of Colchester,
Essex, UK. It is no longer active, but here are the best of the images I
recorded.
A few months ago I bought a raspberry pi. This is a cheap (£25)
linux computer. Rather than have it sitting around I thought I would try
and put it to some use. We get quite a lot of birds visit our garden and
have a bird-table and bird-box. So I thought of a webcam, with motion
detection, to watch them! I bought a webcam and a wi-fi dongle, a
waterproof box, some garden lighting cable (for power extension), some
cable glands and put them all together.
For the programming, I used linux motion to do the photos
and motion detection and ncftp to upload to the web. All of this is run
from a bash shell script that I put together. And that's it!
If you have any comments, or want any information, please send me an email at
steve@tijou.co.uk.