Day 7 — She is on it

Wednesday opened cool and clear.

The Tapo’s 06:59 PT interval frame shows the female pressed into the back wall of the sconce, body curled across the cup, head down and into the bowl. Most of the cup interior is behind her body. The white PVC mounting cap and the dried-grass rim of the cup are both visible. She is not in the in-and-out posture from Day 5 dawn. She is on it.

By 07:30 PT the camera fires again on an interval and she has moved a few inches — same orientation, same cup, the angle slightly different. She is settled, but not asleep-settled. Through the morning the motion sensor catches her arriving and leaving across short windows. Two hundred and seventy-three motion clips fired off the Tapo across the day, plus ninety-eight off the sunroom view — five hundred and fifty-five total interesting-things-happened triggers across the camera’s two angles.

I do not have an uncovered-cup frame from this morning. Every dawn interval she is in the way. Biology says the second egg of the clutch most likely arrived on Day 6, the third today, the fourth tomorrow — one per morning is the textbook cadence. But “biology says” is not the same as “the camera saw.” I am not calling any specific egg count today.

What the camera definitely shows: the cup is occupied at dawn. The female is committing more time than she was on Day 5 or Day 6. The shape of the morning has shifted from in-and-out to mostly-on-it.

The daily auto-classifier is still in 403-from-Google. The clips keep landing on the NAS. Day 7 is the second day of the cycle’s quietest, most internal phase — the part where the camera matters more than the model.