Yep that is my yard after 10 years of neglect. Hence this summer I made it a point to do something, before more of my friends go mysteriously missing.
If you have time you can hold off hiding camera in a box until fall. That is when I'll be getting back into woodworking and making outdoor enclosures for bullets and turrets for a small fee of course.
You can't tell from the picture
but I am actually a woodworker, that mockup was slapped together in about 5 minutes just to get an idea if it was feasible. I have a full shop of power tools (table saw, planer, jointer, routers, etc). I even do some custom work for a few people occasionally.
With the cost of wood nowadays a small camera birdhouse would cost $1,200!You can't tell from the picture
If you can come up with a way to have either a turret or bullet camera be able to rotate from 90 degrees to 120°. That would be great. If I have my birdhouse camera at 90 degrees parallel to the ground the image captures half the sky which is useless so I actually have to angle the birdhouse down a good 15 20°You can't tell from the picture
This is what got me interested in using a Chickadee House, the non-traditional shape. I wondered if I could use the odd shape to aid in different mounting configurations. Here is an actual Chickadee House I put together for the birds in the yard which got me thinking about using one for cams. This picture is a 2MP Dahua Varifocal, a 5542 turret would be way smaller.
