Live Video of SREH conversion, Link Fixed so try again

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terrapincove
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Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:06 pm
Location: Maurice River, Southern NJ
Martin Colony History: Well established 90 cavity colony. Mostly plastic gourds with some custom cedar houses atop pilings out over the river. We live stream the activity on our website https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKqSW ... Ph2tywu4eg

We are on the Maurice River. The Maurice is brackish and tidal. It meets the Delaware bay about three miles down at East Point, NJ. The area is remote and consists of dense marshland and swamp. Dragonflies abound.

Swallows arrive in mid August and finish nesting mid July. There is a large annual roost in mid August upriver a few miles at Mauricetown.

this is a good day to view martins that are just learning to use a SREH. The round holes were just converted to SREH and this shows the martins reactions to the conversion.

The starlings were starting to compete for the cavities so the conversion was critical.

The male can already enter with lighting speed. He has two potential mates that he is trying to persuade.

http://68.42.14.192/view/index.shtml
Last edited by terrapincove on Sat May 22, 2010 8:48 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Jeff Robinson
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tried your link twice, both times got message that the "link appears to be broken"
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Fred Kaluza~MI
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Joined: Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:40 pm
Location: Port Huron, Michigan
Martin Colony History: Tried and tried and had some visitors but...not enough good insects around here to keep them interested.

Hugh, I love your streaming feed! It looks like good smooth video from your Axis cam. Do you know what your uplink bandwidth is from your I.S.P.? Fred in Michigan P.S. Are you on fresh water or salt water?
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Fred Kaluza~MI
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Joined: Mon Nov 17, 2003 10:40 pm
Location: Port Huron, Michigan
Martin Colony History: Tried and tried and had some visitors but...not enough good insects around here to keep them interested.

In the last few minutes there were no Martins but I did see a male HOSP checking out the cavities and I watched a Gull or Tern fly by!
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terrapincove
Posts: 366
Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:06 pm
Location: Maurice River, Southern NJ
Martin Colony History: Well established 90 cavity colony. Mostly plastic gourds with some custom cedar houses atop pilings out over the river. We live stream the activity on our website https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKqSW ... Ph2tywu4eg

We are on the Maurice River. The Maurice is brackish and tidal. It meets the Delaware bay about three miles down at East Point, NJ. The area is remote and consists of dense marshland and swamp. Dragonflies abound.

Swallows arrive in mid August and finish nesting mid July. There is a large annual roost in mid August upriver a few miles at Mauricetown.

4.62mb/s upload speed

21.19 mb/s download speed

this is salt water, tidal
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terrapincove
Posts: 366
Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:06 pm
Location: Maurice River, Southern NJ
Martin Colony History: Well established 90 cavity colony. Mostly plastic gourds with some custom cedar houses atop pilings out over the river. We live stream the activity on our website https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKqSW ... Ph2tywu4eg

We are on the Maurice River. The Maurice is brackish and tidal. It meets the Delaware bay about three miles down at East Point, NJ. The area is remote and consists of dense marshland and swamp. Dragonflies abound.

Swallows arrive in mid August and finish nesting mid July. There is a large annual roost in mid August upriver a few miles at Mauricetown.

I spotted the HOSP. He was only there for a few seconds.

He's in trouble if he comes back.

try the camera again. i'll change the setup so you can pan/tilt/zoom
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