We're still working on it.

Tonight's exposure setting is working a lot better. The picture is not as dark.

We're experimenting with the automatic exposure settings for the camera this weekend. This particular setting is not working very well. We will try another one tomorrow.

Is the Shaky dangerous? 

Extremely -- especially when in front of a keyboard.

Definitely put the wires in the wall. It will look so much nicer. Just be sure you're happy with the location of everything. Moving them later will be a pain.

Wingpit?

The picture size (resolution) of the Dailies is smaller than that of the still pictures from the nest box cameras. The dailies are kept small in order to limit the file size to 1.2 megabytes. This decision was made 5 years ago when many people were still using a dial-up connection to the Internet, and it took a long time to download and view the movies. I am wondering if the size limit can be increased.

As I stated above, the movie file size is 1.2 MB. This is actually smaller than the file size of some of the full-size pictures from the new Main Camera!

Increasing the size of the movies will allow more detail to be seen, but it will also increase the time it takes to download the movies to your web browser. If it takes too long for you to download them now, you might not want to see them made any bigger. Please let me know what you think by answering the poll.

For 6 years, I have been making QuickTime movies from the daily images of the nest box cameras.

http://rfalconcam.com/rfc-main/archiveDailies.php

I am wondering if people think they are worth continuing. Please take a moment to answer the poll.

(movie) Moon shots!

You can also see the moon at the end of Wednesday's daily QuickTime movie:

http://shakymon.com/daily/Camera1_LowRes.mov

What?  No animals left in your cabin?

No, we didn't get any this time. We missed them too. Maybe next year.

Here's the album:

http://classic.kodakgallery.com/shaky/main/southern_caribbean_2010

Beauty left at 2.58
the other falcon left at 3.18

There is only one falcon in these pictures, Beauty. She moved from the perch in front of Main camera to the platform beneath Main Camera at 2:58.

81/Y is Beauty's band

[Rfalconcam Now]

Thanks, Annette, but let's keep the Rfalconcam Now board tied to falcon activity at the nest box. We have watchers in the field receiving tweets on their cell phones when people post new topics on this board. See the READ THIS FIRST topic for more information.

http://rfalconcam.com/forum/index.php?topic=1033.0

But please don't stop posting interesting pictures from the nest box cameras. Just post them to the Pictures from the Rfalconcam cameras topic in the Rochester Falcon Discussion board.

http://rfalconcam.com/forum/index.php?topic=1096.0

I am so jealous!