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Day 11 — Incubation, 509 motion clips
The Tapo recorded 509 motion clips through 14:55 PT. The side camera added 75 captures from its angle. 503 of those had a bird in frame; 15 caught both adults in the same shot. 6 …
Day 10 — Incubation begins, 547 motion clips
The Tapo recorded 547 motion clips through 20:46 PT. 544 of those had a bird in frame; 5 caught both adults in the same shot. 3 frames showed the cup with neither parent — those …
Day 9 — Up at the rim
The Day 9 morning frame, at 07:08 PT, looks different from Day 7 and Day 8. The female is upright, at the right side of the cup rim, her head turned outward toward the sunroom …
Day 8 — Curled in
Thursday is the busiest motion day of the cycle so far. Five hundred and twenty-one clips landed on the NAS by sundown — three hundred and forty-five from the Tapo cup-camera, …
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 …
Day 6 — The morning after
Tuesday opens with the Tapo firing through the night. 04:42 PT — predawn, infrared mode, a single bird hunched at the cup with its back to the camera and its head down. The cup …
The First Egg
First light on Monday came through the sunroom window at five-thirty. By 06:15 PT the Tapo’s motion daemon had already fired three times. Pulling the clip back from the NAS, …
Day 4 — The cup is finished
Sometime late on Day 3 the building work stopped looking like building. By the time the Tapo woke on Sunday morning the rim was a finished rim. Material wasn’t being added — …
Day 3 — Nest-building, 72 motion clips
The Tapo recorded 72 motion clips through 08:14 PT. 63 of those had a bird in frame; 0 caught both adults in the same shot. 9 frames showed the cup with neither parent — those are …
The Sconce, the Snapshot, and the Dead Card
First light came over the sunroom at 06:13 PT and the Tapo started firing. By mid-afternoon the camera tight on the open face of the sconce had recorded close to three hundred …