Many people have inquired if I might consider doing something important with Processing instead of the usual mindless Audio Visual drivel to which I have become accustom and associated. To them I say, “Why yes!”. In fact just yesterday, I set up a Processing driven webcam outside my kitchen window to view the nesting and maternal instincts of the common city pigeon. Here you can see the fruit of that labor.
Oh, and I stuck a fez on her head too.
View the LIVE pigeon cam here.
View the LIVE pigeon cam with dynamically added fez here.
Or if you are impatient or if its night time in San Francisco or if the pigeon landed on the cam and moved it while I was away or the feed stops working, you can see a short timelapse video here.
keep up the good work!
mindless hacking makes the world a better place.
yeah.
I like the way in which just to keep an element of “mindless Audio Visual drivel” you have to include an albeit ingenious fez-placing version.
Salutes to you
Genius !
Amazing..
Nice work
Judging by the time-lapsed video, Shirley doesn’t do a whole helluva lot, does she? How long do the babies take to hatch?
According to the interweb, pigeon eggs hatch in 18 days. I think its been over 2 weeks so far so they will probably crack and emerge while I am in Barcelona. Hopefully the webcam holds up. I definitely wanna see how god awful ugly they are.
Keep it Mindless!
AHHAHAH.. I just laughed so hard at the time lapse with the fez. That is awesome! I would also like to see the little babies!
Pigeon? Wearing a Fez? In this day and age? I love it! Onwards Pigeon fanciers!
Would you mind sharing which Processing plugin you used (or code you wrote) to make the fex trick work?
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Too good – A pigeon with a Tommy Cooper fixation (sorry a reference for Brits only there). This is a decidedly worthwhile use of your undoubted talent. I laughed so much I must have woken up the neighbours (time lapse again). Thanks for this image, it’s too precious to let go.
De side is top!
Goedgekeurd door John en Willeke.
I love these birds!
Do you also feed her with wheat or corn? Or place a cup of water near her nest?
Best, by the way, would have been to exchange her eggs for fake-eggs (in Germany these can be bought in pet food shops) as these poor birds have such a sad and cruel life in our cities…
Regards from Munich, Germany
Bridget
I dont feed her or water her. A la Star Trek, best not to intervene I would say. Fake eggs??? Thats sooo sad! Better yet, lizard eggs.
Will the baby pigeons get fez too? Holy moses, baby pigeons, maybe they do exist.
Great to see someone else doing this
I think your heading picture shows Him, not Her. He will sit the nest during the daytime and She will do it at night. The eggs take about two and a half weeks to hatch and then both parents feed the chicks. For the first week or so they are fed on pigeon’s milk, which is a protein/fat secretion from the lining of the crop; after this adult food is gradually introduced. The chicks will leave the nest four to six weeks after hatching, by which time they look almost like the adults.
Two eggs is the usual number. Sometimes they only lay one. They almost never lay more than two. The nest site is pretty good by the look of it and the nest is not “badly constructed”, it’s pretty well constructed for a pigeon’s nest. Sometimes if they find a nice dip in a surface they don’t bother making an actual nest at all.
The pigeon cam is down! I’ve become addicted! Watched those chicks hatch last week and grow like crazy, but the cam has been down for two days now.
Help!
I had to repurpose the computer for a short spell. I will have it back up this weekend. I promise.
Super short spell. Its back up!!! GO SALLY GO!!!
Repurpose Shirley’s computer? What’s the world coming to.
It’s not just me; I sit in a room full of tech writers up here in Oregon, and we all keep tabs on her.
Thanks
I was able to see her again for a little while, but now image has been locked since about 12:21 p.m.
I’ll check back on her periodically. Take Care!
Oh, damn. Thanks for the heads up. Probably stay locked until I make it back to the apartment this weekend. Not sure whats up. Perhaps my cat stepped on the keyboard again.
Well, she’s finally refreshing again. The image froze a second time for abit, but now it’s doing fine. Perhaps the cat is just pacing back and forth across the keyboard.
You didn’t let that computer cat outside did you?
I havn’t seen Shirley all day in the next, the chicks are just hanging out alone.
Yeah, noticed the parents were gone. Not sure if that means the chicks are abandoned. I dont really know how pigeons work.
Looks like alls well in pigeon land. They’re still growing like crazy. I hadn’t seen the parents in many days, but saw one of them there this morning feeding the chicks. It’s probably getting pretty crowded in there.
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Well, looks like the cycle is almost complete…. Beebees look to be out of the nest? I have been saving pics of them over the last week or so…. am making a montage. I’ll miss these guys! Thanks for a good run. Pigeon run.
OK, I have been watching all day, with and without the fez… mom, dad, sis’ and bro’ were in and out all day…. busy place! Looks like ma and pa are ready to lay more eggs in a few days. I have compiled an interesting array of shots from the cam… so fun to watch this thing! Oh and Flight?, did you toss some wheat bread in? Crutons? They love wild bird seed, but then…. you enter into a whole realm you might not want to go in…
I had a pet white dove for about 15 years, ended up getting her a mate, they had kids, the kids had kids, etc. etc. till I had 8 white doves…. had to reduce it back down to the one original one and kept her as my only pet for years, until losing her recently. Anyway, great fun here for the terminally without-much-of-a-life.
Cheers, y’all, and see ya, funny bird-clan!
A.
My dear old dad worked for years in the Connecticut Correctional system. He tells the story often of the time the pigeons in the prison yard started showing up with hats on. First time, a pigeon showed up wearing a country western hat. Sometime later, another pigeon appears wearing a ladies bonnet. Next, a puritans hat. Then a cops hat, a nurses cap, a firemans hat, and Yes, a fez! Turns out, one of the prisoners was making the hats and glueing them onto the poor pigeons heads. Demented creativity. Probably got a lock-down for that one. We always got a laugh out of though, poor unfortunate birdies!
Here we go again…. a brand new egg!
Nope…. thats all there is. I just took down the webcam. Sorry all, show is over.
Bummer.
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