Wyze Cam on a Birdfeeder

BUCK BREAKS BRACKET ! A couple of young bucks eating off the birdfeeder, Once turns around and casually knocks the Wyze Cam Outdoor off the tree. No More Plastic Brackets at that height.

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Squirrel Tail WOC. Notion detection by squirrel pass only catches his tail as he pauses.

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On my larger feeder platform, the larger birds tend to ā€œdrop inā€ rather than ā€œfly and landā€. Here are a couple of Blue Jays. They are in IR night vision because it is just before sunset on the shaded side of the house.

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You might want to check out the Birdsy camera. Bit more pricey but you can focus it, it is weatherproof, and you can also livestream.

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Which cam V3?

The Birdsy camera is not a Wyze, sorry for the confusion. It is a camera that records birds and wildlife in particular, using AI for identification and recording. I have two and love them. I use my Wzye for nestboxes and to monitor when Hummingbirds start to arrive, or to check if elsewhere in my backyard something fun is happening, so I know where to put the good camera.

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Which cam, and what is the distance from lens to birds? Focus looks good.

Hey KayTel, This video is just a static image (Wyze date/time overlay not advancing) on both Chrome and Firefox for me. Even downloaded it and played in VLS with same results…

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Huh??

The ā€˜doves resting’ plays for you? May be me, then. :man_shrugging:

(VLC Media Player not VLS)

@callmechaz

It appears to be a video, but there is only one frame.

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V3 I opened and refocused. The camera is mounted at the end of the shelf. The far end of the shelf is 22 inches.

V3 that I opened and changed focus.

Not sure what’s up. It was a regular MP4 from the V3. I’ll take a look at it.

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I deleted the resting doves. Here it is again. Not much to see. They’re resting, after all.

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Watch closely just at the end of this clip. As the dove lowers her heard, a double image stays up. This lasted for about 3 seconds then the video froze. I had to power cycle the camera.

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A frame by frame of a cardinal takeoff including a ā€œone wing waveā€ that should make for a good meme somewhere. An artist friend loves the spanned feather frames. She has asked me to collect them so that she can use them as painting references.

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A much better set of images here. The lighting and bird speed were just perfect. In gymnastics, they talk about the gymnast holding a landing. This Blue Jay gets a 9.0.

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OK, Last one for today. About camera distance. Here is a Mourning Dove in the shadow of the V3 Camera.

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Ok kids. I moved one of my two outdoor cams to my bird bath - about a foot away, so everything is in focus, I think. Obviously I’d love to get alerts from birds at the bath, like this one:

bird at bath

Instead, I’m only getting alerts for ā€œpetsā€ at the bath, like this:

pet at bath

Not exactly what I want (not to say it’s not cute, but I want to see the birds moreso than the squirrels). I’ve jacked the sensitivity all the way up to 100 - because my thought is that the cam needs to be super sensitive to catch tiny birds flying in and out. Do I have that backwards? Does it need to be all the way down to get these little fliers?

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