Finch Cam at Painted Peacock Manor

Looking at a House Finch nest, just above my front door. A pair of finches nests here just about every year and raises 1-2 batches of brood in the spring, with 3-5 chicks per batch.

Last year they decided to nest on my DragonFruit vine, by the back door, where I don't have a camera, but now they're back!

They moved in on 3/25, literally the day after I told someone, "I haven't had finches here since 2022."

They're in and out during the day. As of 04/02/24 I'm expecting her to lay her eggs in a few days, and then someone will be on camera almost 24/7.

The video is being captured by a WyzeCam v3 with RTSP firmware, then relayed through a MacMini running ffmpeg, although it could be done with something as simple as a Raspberry Pi, because ffmpeg is just repackaging and relaying the RTSP stream; there's zero transcoding going on, so the CPU load is negligible, even on a very modest machine. I did open the WyzeCam in order to refocus the lens, as the factory default won't focus this close.

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