Camera phone video tour of backyard bird feeders and bird houses

Cape Cod is a great place to watch and feed birds.  My girlfriend loves this, and purchases many bird feeders and different types of seeds.

She also spends a lot of time staring through binoculars looking at the birds in our backyard.

We have a variety of bird feeders:  Suet cages, flat tray feeders, a tray feeder with a roof, plastic bird feeders, tube feeders and sock feeders.  Most are in the backyard but we also have a few in the front yard.  (Photo left taken from camera phone video -- see below.)

Bird preferences

Small birds often like the tube and sock (often called thistle or nyjer) feeders.  The large birds gravitate towards the tray feeders.

And some birds feed on the ground so we throw seeds down as well.  Some of the birds we’ve seen in the yard include Baltimore orioles, mourning doves, bluejays, bluebirds, cardinals, black cap chickadees, a variety of woodpeckers (including the Northern flicker), sparrows, robins, falcons, finches, hummingbirds, blackbirds and crows.

Birding is very popular on the Cape and there are several excellent bird stores, that I'll write about later....with lots of help from my girlfriend who is the expert.

Camera phone video

As part of this "Practical Cape Cod" weblog I'm taking advantage of the tools of my trade — being a wireless data consultant -- and employing different types of cellular camera phones to shoot still photos and videos.

Using a hot, new Nokia N70 camera phone -- with excellent video recording capabilities — I shot a video of the various bird feeders and bird houses in our backyard and included some birding tips.

I transferred the video to my laptop computer using a cable and then uploaded the video to the Web by using a WiFi connection.

Because of the video processing, the quality of the video that's on the weblog isn't as good as watching the original footage I shot.  But it's just fine for watching on the Web.

Click and watch

So, if you're interested in watching, just click on the little triangle on the left of the graphic below and the video should start playing.  If you want to increase or decrease the sound, move the “slider” to the right of the loudspeaker icon.

The video runs a bit more than four minutes and it works best with a fast broadband connection.

(It was rather windy when I shot the video this morning so you’ll see the bird feeders swaying and perhaps hear the wind.)