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BIRDTABLE CAM

Operational during daylight hours
Peanuts (centre)
Niger seed for finches (left)
Fat ball (right)
Mixed seed on table

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BagerCam

BADGER CAM

Operational at dusk in the UK
Peanuts available from dusk

Badgers Underground
Barn Owl & Chicks

BIRD NEST CAM

Nesting season only
Kestrelcam - daylight hours
Owlcam - 24 hours
Swallow cam - daylight hours

(out of season these links will be to archive pages)

Interested in how our cameras are set up? Click here...

BIRDTABLE CAM ARCHIVE

Nothing interesting on the bird table at the moment ? - See highlights from the last 4 years.

 

Watering Hole Cam


This is our brand new camera watching a drinking trough. It is a day / night camera.

Watch this space!!

BADGER CAM ARCHIVE

Past higlights, available all day.

BIRD NEST CAM ARCHIVE

See some our best pictures from previous breeding seasons.

CHURCH FARM ARCHIVE

Rather than bring you past pictures from the 'Secret Valley' camera here are some photographic images from around Church Farm.

The 'Making' of Wildlink

We are often asked about how we set up Wildlink so below are a few notes on the story so far....

Installation took many months & involved digging some seriously long trenches to bury our cables! Currently we have over 2 kilometres of cable (much of it high quality video cable) running from the various cameras back to a central point where we use a video server to convert the video signals from the cameras to digital signals to be sent to the internet.


The cameras are all high resolution video cameras of various makes, rather than the 'webcams' found on home PCs. The camera which watches the badgers (and foxes) each evening is able to work in daylight & then switch itself to night mode as the light levels fall, the same camera was used in the kestrel's nest during the last breeding season which meant that we were able to show colour pictures when light levels were sufficient & still show black & white images when the light fails. Other cameras use infra red lighting.

Note: David and Andrew's BBC background certainly helps when it comes to the technicalities of making all this work. The complexity of keeping such an operation running is not for the faint hearted!

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