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The new `ODD BOX' design offers garden birds a warm and secure place to raise their family whilst offering the viewer a unique `side on' view (including the entrance hole) rather than the traditional `top down' view. Although side view nest box camera systems have been attempted in the past they've all relied on larger nest boxes with a glass or clear Perspex divider between the camera and the nest to achieve the appropriate viewing angle. However, this causes a number of problems, the main two being:

* Infrared light reflection from the glass divider (if the camera has Infrared night vision built in)
* The inside of a nest box can be a messy place! Although the parents try their best to keep the nest clean this inevitably leads to any glass divider becoming smeared and dirty, which can ruin your view!

The innovative `ODD BOX' design eliminates these problems as it doesn't require a glass divider. The camera body and connections are mounted behind an opaque plastic panel fitted with a small slot for the camera lens to shoot through. As the camera is mounted at the top of the sloping side wall, nesting material and mess is kept well away in the nesting well at the base of the box.

A fantastic system containing everything you need. The high quality mini video camera provides clear colour images during the day and black & white images at night. There's also a built in microphone so you can hear as well as see what's going on. This system will be delivered fully assembled and tested so all you have to do is position the box, plug it in and start watching!

The kit includes (see images tab for illustration);

1. The 'ODD BOX' nest box offers market leading quality and value for money. The box is hand built from high grade Western Red Cedar (sourced from well managed forests) and follows guidelines suggested by the RSPB and British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). The nest box has a removable front panel with a 32mm entrance hole and is suitable for the widest range of garden birds including Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Marsh Tits, Great Tits, House Sparrows and possibly Wrens. The nest box has a small camera compartment to house the camera and connections. A quick release camera mounting bracket is also fitted to hold the camera in the optimum position. The High Resolution camera kit also comes with 2 metal hole protector plates (28 and 32mm diameter) to help deter squirrels and other predators).

2. A small window to allow just enough natural light inside the box to help provide great colour images.

3. Nest box camera. This will produce great colour images during the day and black & white images at night as it also has built in infrared night vision. Infrared 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. Choose between the Standard and High Resolution cameras. The Standard camera is a CMOS type camera and has a resolution of 380TVL (TV Lines). The High Resolution camera is a CCD type camera and has a resolution of 420TVL (TV Lines).

4. The rest of the system. Choose between Wired and Wireless versions. The Wired version consists of a 20m professional 'plug n play' cable (High Resolution version has 30m cable) connected to the camera in the roof of the nest box. The other end of the cable has three connectors. They are black, yellow and white. 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. Connect the yellow-to-yellow and white-to-white, switch on the 12v mains adaptor, then select the appropriate AV channel on your TV using your TV remote control. The Wireless version comes with a complete transmitter / receiver kit. See the Specifications tab for more information.

Watching nest box footage on your computer
The addition of a Video to USB kit will allow you to view footage on your computer. This is not included with the camera which on its own connects to televisions. By viewing footage on your computer, you'll also be able to record and edit, and create your own homemade wildlife DVDs.