I would like to set up a camera in a remote pool to photograph shy birds as they drink and bathe. Commercial infrared motion detectors are usually designed to respond to humans and often make a point of the fact that birds and small animals don't trigger them. Now that my picaxe-based wireless remote is up and running, we now have five cameras that I can set up to take exposures every ten seconds, with the potential to achieve 10,000 exposures in a session. Impressive but not practical. I hope to use a bird-triggered P.I.R. detector to prompt the camera to take six shots and then wait for another trigger. If I can come up with a PIR detector that responds to a bird, it will be a simple task to modify my existing timers to run for a minute instead of continuously. I imagine that commercially available devices designed to sell to wildlife photographers will be too expensive. Any suggestions?
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15 years ago