The monitoring of large nest boxes can be a burdensome chore. For me, it meant hauling an 18 foot folding ladder into the city park where the tree mounted boxes were located, setting the ladder up, inspecting the first box, collapsing the ladder, moving to the next box, and repeating process until all boxes were inspected. The final trek was hauling the ladder home.

I quickly realized that I was in need of an easier method of monitoring such boxes, and devised the pole-mounted video camera as the solution. Below is a video shot using the camera while inspecting a Flicker nest box which surprisingly was occupied by a Western Screech Owl.

The below document provides detailed information on the camera.