… well, not quite. But a big long bit of wood, a (really) heavy planter (which I usu­ally use to sit on), and some par­cel tape. Noth­ing that the BBC Spring­watch tech-crew will feel too threat­ened by but I’m feel­ing pretty pleased with myself.

Some­times think­ing about things too much is a bad idea. I wanted the web­cam, away from the build­ing, point­ing at the nest­box. And I couldn’t work out how to do it. So I went for a walk. Around the gar­den, and around the garage. And 10 min­utes later …

Look­ing good but despite tweak­ing with mask files and exper­i­ment­ing with the con­fig­u­ra­tion for motion I still end up with over 10,000 images at the end of the day, a ran­dom snap­shot of which get upload to my flickr pho­to­stream.