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Red-tails and the box (and no more perch)

To my relatively untrained eye, it now appears that the local red-tailed hawks are no longer interested in the nestbox, since we've removed the perch.  They're still around, although from my observations, they're just using the nestbox hill as one...

Red-tails on the box

While I was gone on a trip to Yellowstone, it seems our local red-tails have started using the perch a lot.  That means that perch will have to come down.  Alex and I will take it down this weekend if possible.  As a consequence of having...

Streaming audio?

I've been experimenting with streaming audio lately.  It seems a fairly simple thing to do, and internal network tests appear okay, but for this year, we'll probably not provide it as I'm a bit leery of opening my network to the outside world. ...

Stupid stinkin' cables

Okay, next year (assuming we're successful this year and our enthusiasm remains high enough), we're going to run real power cables to a real junction box on the hill, distribute power the right way, and use better video cable for the return signal. ...