After another long delay I’ve got around to another research blog update. It has taken a while to make some good news. As of yesterday I had the fifth nest camera installed and operating. It remains to be seen then, whether they are collecting full and complete data, when I service them in a fortnight’s time.
The delivery of four brand new, off the factory line, cameras came with complimentary software glitches. The glitch was somewhere between, not tolerating 32GB SD cards while operating on Timee Lapse in the glory of daylight. It has taken three weeks to get a workable patch-up, and the cameras will need to be serviced more frequently than the older more stable cameras. They tell me they have their software programmers working hastily on the next updates.
The fifth camera went up yesterday. The accommodating canopy of this big pine provided the best opportunity yet to have both Mia and I up working together on a camera. And of course we had to have the classic i-was-here portraits! A fantastic last day before heading back to Denmark for her work, travel well Mia.
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| a camera int he paradise valley area |
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| and at Zimbali Coastal Estate |
Between delays in securing permits and the camera faults I have missed two to five weeks of young eaglet meals at these nests. But these four are now up and running. The Giba gorge camera is still up and has now recorded long series of a vacant nest. The eaglet fledged sometime last week. The camera remains in place because this youngster will still return to the nest for meals for many weeks to come.
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| our E6 is the white speck on the dead branches on the far right, the nest down at the bottom left |
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