Barn Owl Box With Hi Res Camera System

   Barn Owl Box Camera System

So what do you get for your money?

The Nest Box - Features that provide for the safe rearing of owlets and effective but simple management of the box include:-

• Manufactured from FSC exterior grade timber.
• Generous drained floor of approx. 300 sq. inches.
• Full width front platform with sturdy edging for owlets to exercise on.
• Full 17" depth from pophole to floor.
• Specially drilled backplate providing fixing holes above and below the box and oversized holes to accommodate ropes for hauling the box up the tree and locating it. The backplate is reinforced top and bottom with sturdy battening and allows for unevenness of the tree trunk.
• Double inspection hatch allowing full access to the whole floor area and facilitates cleaning or inspection from either side of the box. Both hatches are water-resistant at the edges and are held in position with draw bolts.
• A generous weather "canopy" that protects both the pophole and the landing platform from the worst weather.

• A lightweight but robust construction strengthened with internal battens but still only weighing approx. 8.5kgs.

The Camera - All of our nest box cameras are manufactured to our own specification and exacting standards. The camera used in this kit is one of our HIGH RESOLUTION CCD type cameras and has a resolution of 420TVL (TV Lines). This will produce great black and white images day and night as it also has built in infra red night vision. Infra red light is invisible to the human eye and to birds so it will not affect their natural roosting/nesting process in any way. We use a specific type of Infra red light designed to give the optimum illumination levels inside our nest boxes. This virtually eliminates the bright white spot (known as white out) that plagues many other kits available, producing great images whatever time of day or night you are viewing. A built in highly sensitive microphone helps you to hear as well as see what\\'s going on inside the box too. Finally, the camera also has an adjustable focus lens. This is pre-focused to the correct position but can be easily adjusted at a later date should you require.

The Rest Of The System - Consists of a professional plug n play cable connected to the camera in the roof of the nest box. The other end of the cable has three connectors, a black one, a yellow one and a white one. The black one is for power and connects to the 12V DC power adaptor supplied (looks like a mobile phone charger). This plugs into a mains socket. The remaining yellow (video) and white (audio) connectors plug into a spare AV socket on your TV, video recorder or DVD recorder. This can be either a spare scart socket (usually found on the back of the TV or video/DVD recorder) using the scart adaptor supplied or the three RCA type phono sockets (3x round, yellow, white and red sockets) on the front or side of your TV/Video/DVD recorder. Once connected, simply select the appropriate AV channel on your TV using your TV remote control.

This kit contains:

• Barn Owl Box
  
• High quality, high resolution B&W CCD camera 420TVL resolution with built in Infra Red Illumination enabling viewing 24 hrs day.
• Integral microphone to hear as well as see what’s going on inside the Box.
• User adjustable focus lense (preset at install)
  
• 40m of professional cable (wired kit only)
• 12v Regulated Mains adaptor
• Scart Adapter
• Instruction sheet full of useful tips

Would you like to connect this camera system to your computer?

This kit can be connected to your computer too if you have the appropriate connections. Look for a round yellow socket (the same as on your TV) on the back of your PC. If you have one of these connectors on your PC it will most likely be on the graphics card, a TV card or a dedicated capture card. If you dont have this connection or you plan to use a laptop we would recommend using one of our Video to USB adaptors. All you need is a spare USB socket and an audio jack input socket (most computers will have these). Software is supplied to get you started (we have XP/Vista and Apple Mac versions available) but once connected you can pretty much use any piece of software that can accept a live video input (eg. most webcam software). We recommend I-catcher Wildlife. This has full motion detection capabilities and much more!

The system is supplied with clear, easy to follow instructions . You will also find lots of other useful information in our Advice and FAQ sections too.

You will have the opportunity to add accessories to this kit such as extension cables and the video to USB adaptor after you click on the ADD TO BASKET button above.