The end of an (*almost) era

Hello, dear followers. It looks like Birdsy has finally come to an end, the servers seem to be offline. This means I will have to finally sit down this weekend and find a streaming solution. Please bear with me, this may take a bit (I have tried a bit with foggy head earlier this week and could not get it to work). In the meantime, I have trailcams out in various spots to capture clips and photos but it is of course not the same as a livestream.

I will try Youtube for streaming and the iSpy software for recording but if anybody has a free solution for the latter, please let me hear it.

Let me also again say that the five years with Birdsy were wonderful, and I am extremely sad and disappointed that this wonderful adventure has found such a sad ending. I hope in the future there will be another rendition of Birdsy, and one that conquers the birdwatcher world. Because there is nothing like it and we need it.

PS: This does NOT mean that I will stop posting things, it just means that I currently have no livestreams and no way to record the clips I recorded with Birdsy.

Update - they have responded with an apology (it was “the intern”, which is an excuse I have heard before a couple of weeks ago with that other company) and apparently took the photos down. I urge everybody to do some research before you drop money on any of these knockoff products. Or get the original product. There is a lot of scamming going on and they do not care. The next one will probably pop up in a couple of weeks too.

PSA. I know posting photos on the internet makes everybody think they can take them but my work is my work and I decide what I want to do with it. Yet another company has decided to take my photos to advertise their product. Without asking me. I am sick of this so I am calling them out here now. The company is called Palprot and selling a bird feeder style camera (that also looks familiar to another product that is not on the market yet). I have not given permission to them to use my photos, and they even use one as a "sample photo". My watermark has been cut out but I know my photos and my backyard. This is not a cheap product either. I would stay away from this, it is probably cheap crap. The boldest part of all of this? They follow me on Insta and Twitter and even sent me a message asking what camera I use. Thieves suck. Don't be a thief.

If you need an Oriole fix, check my livestream this morning, I switched it to the jelly feeder :) https://ostdrossel.com/livestream