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Live Streams
17 cameras show the wild activity in the garden around the clock.
Choose an area and switch between feeding stations, nest boxes, hedgehog houses, garden dormice, squirrels and selected favourites.
At the feeding station I provide food all year round. The menu includes sunflower seeds, seasonal seed mixes, insect suet balls, apples, walnuts and hazelnuts. Regular visitors include tits, blackbirds, goldfinches, great spotted woodpeckers and even rose-ringed parakeets. The squirrels are especially fond of the nuts and sunflower seeds. Three cameras capture what is happening and stream it live here.
A little tip: Alexander Fuhr’s website also offers great views into nest boxes, a bird feeder and a hedgehog house. Have a look at Nistkasten Livestream
Static camera
Static camera at ground level
Interactive camera (PTZ)
PTZ camera control
The PTZ camera is controlled on a dedicated page. This helps reduce data traffic on my connection and to the camera. You will also find instructions and help for the controls there.
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Hedgehog feeding house 1
Hedgehog feeding house 2
Want to see what happened at the feeding station during the last 12 hours?
Then visit my YouTube channel Nistkasten Lindweiler.
All four streams are also available there with recording enabled. You can rewind the stream by up to 12 hours.
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The main nesting season for tits usually runs from March to June or July. Outside this period there is often little or nothing to see in the nest box. To avoid unnecessary power consumption and data traffic, the camera is therefore offline outside the season. As soon as activity returns to the nest box, the stream will go online again.
A little tip: Alexander Fuhr’s website also offers great views into nest boxes, a bird feeder and a hedgehog house. Have a look at Nistkasten Livestream
Nest box Hazelnut from above
Blue tit nest box
Starling nest box left
Starling nest box centre
Starling nest box right
The hedgehog sleeping house is basically a Big Brother house, only with hedgehogs.
Hedgehog house 1 has once again attracted the attention of the hedgehogs and is therefore back online. If there is activity in hedgehog house 2 as well, that stream will also return. At the moment it is rather empty there, apart from a few small creatures with eight legs 🕷️.
A little tip: Alexander Fuhr’s website also offers great views into nest boxes and a bird feeder. Have a look at Nistkasten Livestream
Hedgehog house 1 entrance
Hedgehog house 1 corridor
Hedgehog house 1 sleeping area
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Hedgehog house 2 feeding area
Hedgehog house 2 sleeping area
The Garden Dormouse
The garden dormouse is a rodent and belongs to the dormouse family, which also includes the edible dormouse and the hazel dormouse. Its scientific name is Eliomys quercinus.
It is often confused with the edible dormouse, but the garden dormouse is easy to recognise by the dark “Zorro mask” around its eyes.
The species is found exclusively in Europe and also occurs in many parts of Germany.
The garden dormouse is nocturnal and hibernates from October or November until March or April.
Unfortunately, populations of this little “Zorro mouse” have been declining for years, and it is already considered extinct in many regions. A few years ago, BUND, Justus Liebig University Giessen and the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research therefore launched the project Tracing Garden Dormice. The project investigates the causes of the decline and develops measures to help preserve the species. Recording sightings is an important part of this work, and members of the public can report garden dormouse observations on the project website. I have of course also reported the sightings from my garden.
Since 2020, a small population of a few animals has settled in my garden. To support this charming little animal, I built and installed a dedicated box for the garden dormouse. With a little luck, we will be able to observe the small dormice here.
Garden dormouse box 1
Garden dormouse box 2
Originally the squirrel drey hung in a willow tree close to the feeding station. Squirrel visits were very rare there, and I suspected that the drey was simply too close to the busy feeding area for the squirrels to consider it a safe place.
I then installed the drey under the eaves of the house, using a ten-metre rope as a climbing aid. Even there, squirrel visits remained the exception. Tits and starlings inspected it regularly, while the squirrels mainly found their way to the drey when I laid out a trail of walnuts. After that, it was no longer of much interest to them.
In winter 2021 I therefore decided to move the drey back into the willow tree, this time a little farther from the feeding station. The squirrels pass through the tree every day, so sooner or later they are bound to notice it. There have already been a few brief inspections. Perhaps one of the garden squirrels will eventually decide to use the new location as a bedroom.
This page brings together the live streams that are currently online and most likely to show some activity. The selection is adjusted whenever necessary.
Feeding station static camera
Feeding station interactive camera (PTZ)
Static camera at ground level
Bird feeding house
Hedgehog feeding house 1
Hedgehog feeding house 2
Live Chat
Spotted something interesting in one of the streams? In the live chat you can exchange observations and talk about the animals and what is happening in front of the cameras.