It's about as automated as I can get it.
Maybe get some kind of surveillance camera to mount on the back wall of
the house? But that wouldn't be the same as shooting with my Pentax camera.
I think I showed y'all this one before: https://flic.kr/p/2hAN6Ch
Also taken out of a kitchen window at my old house.
I could open the window there, put one leg of the tripod IN the sink &
that vine, right outside the window, was crawling with "something" the
Woodpeckers enjoyed eating so they came there frequently.
The image was made right after I got the 600/4 and that setup gave me a
lot more room to get the tripod in place.
At the "new" house, I have to move the tripod out to use the kitchen. I
can use the 600/4 through the back door, but it's too bulky to use over
next to the "kitchen proper" ...
I'm trying to think of a way to change the setup so I can shoot through
the back door when the weather is not favorable (too hot/too cold) -
maybe some kind of insulating blind I can set up against the open door?
On 2/2/2026 1:31 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Great photo and excellent setup.
If you were a nerd you could totally automate the setup.
On 2026-02-01 11:03, John Sessoms wrote:
So, we got Fern on Saturday before it got to New York on Monday. As I
noted in my reply to AnnSan's PESO, I didn't get much "snow" as such.
But what I did get was enough to bring the birds to my porch rail for
the food I put out there.
I attached the top of a fallen tree I cut off to the porch rail so it
provides a perch while the birds study the situation. It's positioned
so I can set my tripod up and aim the camera out the kitchen window.
I think I've shown y'all some before where I aimed the camera out the
back door (through the screen), but IT'S COLD OUT THERE, and I don't
want to be standing there with the back door open.
K-1, Tokina 80-200 f/2.8 ... manipulated not quite so much as the beans.
https://flic.kr/p/2rUuCrH
I've got some more to prepare & upload - Bluejays, Cardinals, Tufted
Titmouse, Black Capped Chickadee and a few others I haven't identified
yet, so stay tuned.
Also, this second go round finally brought me some REAL snow; about
four inches (10 cm). I'm thinking about ideas for how I might capture
that as well.
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