Gazebo Flower Show - Time-lapse pictures of the setup.

I mounted a time-lapse camera so that it looked down on the courtyard and photographed the setup, show and tear down of the flower show.  The camera was taking a picture every fifteen minutes from 9:00 AM till 6:00 PM, beginning two weeks before the show and ending a week after the show.  I ended up removing pictures that didn't have any changes from the previous picture and then used video editing software to make this four minute and eight second movie.

 

No Tail Pulling!

Watch the Crow pull the tail of a Band-tailed Pigeon in this short ten second video.

Who's Digging the Hole?

So the other day I noticed this hole under a step in the garden.

I placed the BirdCam right in front of the hole.  The cat was interested in the hole too and sat there for forty minutes before  walking away.

Since there are a couple of bird feeders on a pole to the left of the hole several different birds came through the garden.

California Towhee

American Crow

Here is a video of the different birds milling about.  First a Band-tailed Pigeon, then some crows followed by a scrub jay.  Then some Mourning Doves amble through when the culprit shows up!

The hole digger!

Here is a video of the squirrel in action.

First Shot!

Here is the first shot of a time-lapse project I have set up at Gazebo Plants and Flowers for the big flower show.  It should be interesting watching the courtyard transform into a colorful display of begonias, bromeliads, orchids and other flower plants.  The camera is taking a picture every 15 minutes from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.  After the show I will take all of the pictures and make a short video.

Morning Oriole

This morning I was greeted by the chatter from this Oriole.

Hooded Oriole



Hooded Oriole



Hooded Oriole

Passion Flowers

I grew up in Missouri and as a kid we planted marigolds, zinnias and petunias around our patio.  Basic flowering plants for Missouri.  Then in my twenties I moved to California and was introduced to all kinds of exotic flowering plants.  I'll never forget the first time I saw a passion flower.  I was convinced that they were plastic flowers that someone had stuck on a vine.  I was totally amazed to find out they were real.  I had never seen anything like it before.


Passion Flower

This variety of Passion flower was the first one I saw and this particular vine grows on our balcony.  The Passion Flower below is growing on the fence of a nursery in Los Osos, California. 

Passion Flower

  

New Video Camera - Sony Bloggie

I bought a new Sony Bloggie HD video camera.  It's a small video camera that fits in a shirt pocket.


Bloggie Video Camera

 I mounted the camera on a tripod and positioned it in front of an Oriole feeder.

I pressed the record button and walked away.  Here is one of the first videos that I shot with this camera.  A male Oriole comes to the feeder and then a juvenile Oriole shows up.  Keep an eye on the pepper trees in the background as another male comes flying up to the feeder.  Then at the 39 sec point a hummingbird does a fly.

The quality is really diminished after uploading the video to blogger.  This isn't a good representation of the cameras resolution.  I