Bre from MAKE Magazine and his friend Steve recently featured a weekend project to show folks how to make some DIY birdfeeders, complete with web cam…here’s their posts, including how-to video and PDFs:
Make a Birdfeeder Webcam: Download the PDF Instructions
Make a Birdfeeder Webcam – Make: Video Podcast
After you make a bird feeder, you might want [...]
Announcing the Critter Geek group on Flickr! What cool things are you doing with your pets? What wildlife are you seeing? What have you learned about animals? Take photos and share them with other critter geeks on Flickr. Here’s a random selection of photos in
the group:
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On Thursday night we went to the first Third Thursdays Speaker Series talk at Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO). Thursday’s talk was PRBO and the Farallon Islands: Four decades of marine research and conservation, given by Russ Bradley, a PRBO Farallon Biologist. Bradley spends 17 weeks a year on the islands, 28 [...]
It’s practically a part of our cultural mythology that whales have almost human-like intelligence. But did you ever think about how difficult it might be to actually study whale brains?
The Seed Magazine article Whale of a Brain describes that, plus recent research that actually reveals structures that are similar to those in primates [...]
I decided that the new year was a good time to look at the list of web sites and podcasts that I follow regularly, and prune that list to the ones that are the best of the best. I haven’t been very disciplined about that pruning, but I did identify one podcast that’s on [...]
These tiny aquariums featured by aquahobby.com as their March 2006 “Tank of the Month” are irresistibly cute. I like that they’re more than novelty tanks — their keepers try to create a balanced environment within the small confines.
It looks like this site is filled with useful info for the aquarium hobbyist. Features like [...]
New Yorkers were excited last week when a Bald Eagle was spotted within the city. One attentive resident, a Red-tailed Hawk known as “Pale Male”, was also watching. You can see great photos of the eagle, and Pale Male, on Lincoln Karim’s photo record for December 27.
Pale Male is arguably the most-watched hawk [...]
Here’s a great project for critter geeks…Sela the dog gets treats in a very special way! The treat dispenser is a Lego MindStorms NXT robot that’s activated by someone using Instant Messanger (IM) to send the word “treat”. Sela’s owner plans to have a web cam enabled so that commands like “sit” and “speak” [...]
Several news sites are reporting that observations of snakes are being used to predict earthquakes in southern China. From CHINAdaily:
Experts at the bureau monitor nests of snakes at local snake farms via video cameras linked to a broadband Internet connection. The video feed runs 24 hours per day.
“Of all the creatures on the earth, [...]
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