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Monday 31 August 2009

What does a bevy, bouquet, charm relate to?

These are generic terms for specific birds groups. What about: A bevy of quail, A bouquet of pheasants, A charm of finches. Have a look here.

    * A band of blue jays
    * A bevy of quail
    * A bouquet of pheasants
    * A cast of hawks
    * A cauldron of hawks (when rising together on a thermal updraft)
    * A charm of finches
    * A colony of penguins (also used for many other sea birds that group together when nesting, such as a colony of terns)
    * A company of parrots
    * A congregation of plovers
    * A congress of ravens
    * A convocation of eagles
    * A covey of grouse
    * A covey of quail
    * A deceit of lapwings
    * A descent of woodpeckers
    * An exaltation of larks
    * A fall of woodcocks
    * A flight of swallows
    * A flight of pigeons
    * A flight of cormorants
    * A gaggle of geese
    * A kettle of hawks (when rising together on a thermal updraft)
    * A murder of crows
    * A muster of storks
    * An ostentation of peacocks
    * A parliament of owls
    * A raft of ducks
    * A rafter of turkeys
    * A siege of heron
    * A skein of geese (when flying)
    * A sord of mallard ducks
    * A tidings of magpies
    * An unkindness of ravens
    * A watch of nightingales
    * A wedge of geese (when flying in V formation)
    * A whiteness of swans (Would it be a blackness of black swans?)
    * A wisp of snipe
We do sell nest box cameras if you want to have a go
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Birds, group names,

Saturday 29 August 2009

Birds enjoy wine too

A new wine box packaging that doubles up as a nest box. Have a look here. handykam.com finds: Click here for bird box design

We do sell nest box cameras if you want to have a go
Cedar bird box with CMOS camera only £84.95
Cedar bird box with CCD camera only £94.95
Pine bird box with CMOS camera only £68.95
Pine bird box with CCD camera onlu £78.95

Keywords used:
Web cam, Microsoft

Thursday 27 August 2009

Cameras just got smaller. 1mm in diameter

MIT develop a fiber camera as small a 1mm.

Inspection cameras get smaller by the minute. Eight layers of light-detecting materials are moulded together via an advanced extrusion process to give amazing results. Handykam.com finds: Click here for inspection cam

Inspection cameras arriving on website soon.

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Inspection cameras, inspection cam, small cam

View sixty two square miles from 1 camera

The US army develop 2.3 gigapixel sensor camera which
should let the camera provide continuous coverage of a range of about
sixty-two square miles at a resolution of 0.3 meters! Wow. That is amazing Handykam.com finds here

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Cedar bird box with CCD camera only £94.95

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Camera technology, gigapixel,

Tuesday 25 August 2009

Microsofts new webcam

Microsoft has a new exciting webcam about to launch. 720p HD webcam with widescreen and a neat autofocus feature. Have a look here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/aug09/08-20CinemaPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press Releases

We do sell nest box cameras if you want to have a go
Cedar bird box with CMOS camera only £84.95
Cedar bird box with CCD camera only £94.95
Pine bird box with CMOS camera only £68.95
Pine bird box with CCD camera onlu £78.95

Keywords used:
Web cam, Microsoft

Food time captured on nest camera

American Robin feeding their brood captured on web camera.

What a neat nest and wonderful plumage.

Monday 24 August 2009

Don't forget me in the photo.

A couple set up a camera on self-timer while holidaying, near a lake in a national park in Canada. They were about to take the photo when a squirrel pops up and steals the show. Wow.
Copyright - Daily Telegraph

Find out more by reading at the Telegraph website here

We sell a range of wildlife cameras.
Hawk and Owl camera only £54.95
Vari-focal camera only £68.95

Keywords used:
Wildlife camera, outdoor camer, squirrel cam

Special whale spotting cameras

New cameras used to spot whales. The special pentrating radar cameras are able to look through tree cover, deep ocean depths to find various species of whales or fish.  It works by having two or more cameras are mounted together and film at different spectral bands, subtracting or de-correlaring at different levels, giving a clear picture. Amazing.... 

Find out more by reading here

We sell a range of wildlife cameras.
Hawk and Owl camera only £54.95
Vari-focal camera only £68.95

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Wildlife camera, outdoor camera

Sunday 23 August 2009

Great footage of a nest

We found some great footage of nest boxes. Like the way the angle is at a 3 quarter view giving a more realistic angle. Rods excellant website is a good insight into how you can use and adapt camera technology to get wonderful footage - Click here for more info

We do sell nest box cameras if you want to have a go
Cedar bird box with CMOS camera only £84.95
Cedar bird box with CCD camera only £94.95
Pine bird box with CMOS camera only £68.95
Pine bird box with CCD camera onlu £78.95

Keywords used:
Bird box cameras, website review, blue tits

Tuesday 18 August 2009

Cedar camera nest box / bird box camera in action

See our Cedar camera nest box / bird box in action - Looks great in situe and  thank you for the glowing report. We do like to make a good product at realistic prices. - Click here for more info

Cedar bird box with CMOS camera only £84.95
Cedar bird box with CCD camera only £94.95

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CCD cameras versus CMOS cameras

CCD V CMOS cameras - Great article on differences - Read more