What are you watching?
See baby Lineolated Parakeets in the incubator just days old.
They were hatched in the incubator and are still in there (and will
be for a bit longer waiting on their sibling to hatch and get big
enough to move into one of our brooders). They are being hand-fed
every two hours around the clock now. This is really behind the
scenes!
The regular FeatherCam shows images from our public areas, while
FeatherCam Too shows you areas that are not open to the public (as
well as other things we may find interesting to show). You may see
breeding pairs of African Greys, Meyers, Senegals, Quakers, Dusky
Conures, Kakarikis, and Cockatiels. On nice days, we may set up to
show some of our outdoor flights (which we use for a little fresh
air and wing stretching - our entire flock lives indoors).
What about the technical stuff?
The camera is live and sends a picture to the web server every 30 seconds. The
image will automatically reload for you (you don't have to hit the refresh
button).
We keep the camera located in the aviary and it talks over a our wireless network
to one of our remote web servers that you are now connected to and reading this. When the aviary gets busy (usually in the afternoons,
weekends, evenings, holidays) you may see bodies blocking the shots. Those would
be the new or prospective parents admiring the babies, and they do get the front
row view.
We keep the camera on pretty much 24 hours a day, so if it looks kind of dark,
it's probably night and lights out time (we put a clock on the camera image so you
can see what time it is in the aviary - this is Eastern US time, -5 GMT). We do keep some dim lights on around the
aviary so you might be able to see some things. If you see a little 9-year old
streaking through the place, that would be DJ.
What do you think?
We've had lots of comments and suggestions.
Tell us what you think
- we'd love to hear!
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