"The Bird" captured by Aircam

[pete_c]

Some pictures of a capture today.

 

[Mario23]

That's pretty sweet!
Wonder what he saw...looks like he made a couple of passes.

 

[wuench]

My aircam picked up a couple of birds thinking about moving in, last week  (I swapped out my lens for one w/o an IR filter so the color is off)
 

 

[electron]

I guess birds really like airCams:
 

 

 

[Kevin L]

Cool. I get a lot of these with birds and wasps, too, but I don't save them. Here are a couple of shots of our night time visitors. Besides the bobcats and armadillos, we get racoons just about every night.
 

 

[pct88]

We have captured images of many visitors with the birdfeeder cam at our house in Vermont-  including bears, moose (off to the right in the picture below), wild turkeys, fox, etc...  Yes, we bring in the bird feeders at night...
 
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[pete_c]

The attached is the event triggered by "the bird". 
 
It is one second long. 
 
The quality of the capture (frame by frame) is much better than a similiar analog camera capture.
 
Another bird was curious today.

 

[electron]

This is why I like Vitamin D so much better than any other app when it comes to motion detection (but it's far from perfect).  It doesn't record most of the birds flying around my camera (the one I posted flew straight towards the cam, like a car would).  I really wish there were more affordable video analytics solutions on the market, as these false positives are a waste of time.

 

[pete_c]

I keep playing with the analytics from ZM and you can tweak them out some but ultimately I mostly rely on the outdoor digital sensors or a combination of the two. 
 
I also have a script running on the ZM box which takes an entire day of little event captures and makes one large video file. A real time 1 second 30 or so frames of a capture can be missed though unless you play them back in slow motion; but doesn't use up much disk space.  
 
This ZM file / directory is shared on the network and I can view the share with XBMC on any of the TVs in the house.  The short events do not really utilize much disk space such that a whole day of events maybe is only 10 minutes or less long. 
 
With HS / HSTouch I am at a point now where I can have one screen relating to video, on demand captures and a means of playback VCR style. (using externally loading VLC stuff rather than the built in MS stuff in HS touch).  Testing the little capacitance tablets I switched from software HD to hardware HD yesterday to see the difference; it is a bit better.  Aside from slide shows now using HD video streaming screen savers on these little touchscreens.
 
I don't really pay attention mostly though until recently looking now at how much more granular the HD IP cameras captures are versus the SD analog cameras.  Totally different quality of video.