Stretchie's Birdbox/Nuthatch Project

In 2019 I built a Pergola outside our kitchen and put up a conventional bought bird box. In 2020 a Nuthatch took up residence and nested but we never saw the chicks fledge. I replaced the box with one made from Oak I had left over from a previous project and installed a camera I bought from https://www.green-feathers.co.uk/ This was a POE (Power Over Ethernet) Camera which involved running ethernet cable from the router to a switch in my workshop where a Synology Network Server was located. From there another ethernet cable needed to be run to POE Switch to connect to the camera. I installed a 2nd conventional surveillance camera to look at the box so that we may see the chicks fledge. This is the story in videos and pictures of building the box to hopefully seeing the chicks emerge from the box.

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