Thu 13 Aug 1998
August 13, 1998 - The Most Important Day in ‘98!
Posted by Zach Glenwright under Backyard Bag Feeder Project, Birds, Edited Feeds (SD), Grackles, SquirrelsNo Comments
The second day of my project!! Actually, this day can easily be considered as the birth of the project. Without this day, the project as it is today might not even exist. It was this day, with the (simple yet expansive) technological advantages I’d discovered and actual attention paid to the project by the animals that came that made the project more than just a one lazy-day video experiment… Click here for all of the details for that day!
BFP 8-13-98 30 second demo [0:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup BFP 8-13-98 High Quality Version [22:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup BFP 8-13-98 Low Quality Version [22:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup
The very first clip from the very first time I tried this project! All that day, I tried to get something to come to the project so I could tape it. At the time, I was using a old 8mm camcorder sitting on a half-working tripod shooting across the yard - complete with a lengthy 30 min. tape (not really l o n g enough for nature videography.) I tried putting the platform in the middle of the yard earlier in the day, but nothing was interested. My mother suggested putting food on top of it, so I tried it and rewound the tape again, but there still weren’t any takers. On a last ditch effort, I reracked the tape one last time and moved the entire thing closer to a waterdish and started rolling again. I went inside for 10 minutes and watched the bird in this video actually sit on the platform and take a nut off of the top of it. I grabbed everything and watched what I taped, amazed that something came to the project in the first place, let alone sit on top of it! This is the clip that made me want to try it just one more day… The squirrels came out about 10 minutes after I taped this for their final-night foraging (the clip was taped around 5pm), but I couldn’t set everything back up in time to tape that, so I figured I’d try it again the next day… something might come…