My Modern Met has an assortment of lovely bird pictures taken by a woman who’s set up a “feeder cam” in her back yard. Click on the screenshot to see them:
Here are the details and then I’ll show my favorite photos.
Lisa, aka Ostdrossel, is fascinated by our feathered friends and has an ingenious setup that allows her to get very close to them—without scaring them away. She uses her feeder cam to remote capture incredible pictures of a variety of species as they nosh on tasty bird feed.
The visitors to Lisa’s backyard don’t know they are being photographed and so they let their personalities shine for the camera. We get a glimpse of two mourning doves nuzzling beaks and a couple of other birds who look like they are in a shouting match. But some of the most fascinating images are of the solo creatures enjoying a mid-day snack. Lisa’s camera has snapped pictures of a crow who has a toothy grin made of a mouthful of kernels as well as a blackbird showing off the giant moth it’s about to feast on.
So, how does a feeder cam work? In a post on her Tumblr, Lisa shares her setup. “It consists of this camera box, much like a trail camera, that has a macro lens on the top and a regular one on the bottom,” she writes. Inside of the box is a shelf where she has placed a camera that has a motion-sensor function and takes 10 pictures per second. Whenever a bird lands on the bowl, the device starts snapping pictures. If the camera is out the whole day, it can yield up to 7,000 photos! Lisa, however, doesn’t mind. “My evening pleasure and routine is to go through all of them, delete the bad ones and keep and slightly edit the ones I deem publishable.”
You can follow Lisa’s work on Instagram and buy a selection of it as photo postcards through Etsy.
She also sells calendars here.
Here are my favorite pics (6 out of the 21 on the site; go see ’em all), with the first being hilarious. Corn dentures!
h/t: Malcolm
Wow those are greedy birds!
I love that last one. Looks like his body is a big heart shape in pink.
WOW! Those are great!
That could be a career. Taking something like 7000 photos a day, then going through them and put some on the computer. Throw the rest out and start over the next day.
Some fantastic – and amusing – photos. Thanks!
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Those are indeed quite special, and worthy of entry into a variety of wildlife photo contests. Seriously.
I think she is using a wide angle macro lens, and I can tell you that kind of lens is incredibly fun!
Yes, her site says a macro lens and a regular lens, a motion detector and the rest is magic.
A wide angle macro is different from a regular macro. Its about the wide angle of view provided by the background.
Even my d*g isn’t so greedy for food. Must be the reptile in them…reptiles and food is epic evolution.