30 Amazing Photos a Woman Took Using a Hidden Camera In a Bird Feeder

So you like bird? Have you ever tried taking bird photos? If you have you know how hard it is and how disappointing it is to find that all your waiting and patience were in vain by only one flap of the bird’s wing. Yeah yeah I know the feeling.

Anyway, here we have some photos of Lisa. Also you might know her as Osrdrossel online. As you go through these photos you might feel there’s something different about these photos. And you will be right. She haven’t used some fancy telephoto lenses for these, instead made a bird feeder, hid a remote control camera inside it and take photos as birds come for food. How genius!

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The beginning of her ‘bird-photo-journey’ happened back in 2012 after she moved to Michigan. From Germany. She was excited to see so many kinds of new birds landing in her backyard. Of course you change your continent, you get different animals around your backyard. This is good advice for all of you who is wanting a change in your environment (wink wink). Anyway as you might also want to Lisa wanted to show her new uninvited neighbors to her family back in Germany. You know how it is. She said all this in an interview with Bored Panda.

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“I enjoy seeing the beauty of the bird anatomy, the delicate patterns, the feathers, the colors, and of course their antics. How they pose, etc. The creative process mainly consists of choosing the best photo out of thousands that my system takes each day and then editing it a bit,” that is what she said. “The reward is being able to share it with the world and seeing how others enjoy it as well, learn something, or are becoming more fascinated by nature.” She said.

At first she had used a normal pocket camera for the job. I mean we have to start from somewhere right. She had also tried experimenting with different ways of photography before she came up with the ‘bird feeder’ idea. Quite the struggle she went through huh. But outcome is worth it I say.

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To say how much Lisa got familiar with her backyard birds now she can even recognize some of them by their look. “There is a grackle, for example, that we named Count Drackula, which has white dots around the neck and looks especially grumpy.” I have to admit I cannot think of a better name for this one.

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Lisa use two setups for taking photos. A homemade setup which includes an action camera in a waterproof box used for close-ups. And then there is a special camera made by Birdsy. I’m going to quote here what she said about it. “It works with AI and records videos when the AI identifies a bird or animal in the frame. The videos are stored in my Birdsy account, from which I can download and edit them, watch them, or share them. Birdsy is still in the test phase, but will be launching very soon. There is more information on their website. I have been using this camera for about a year now and absolutely love it. The fun thing is that it captures scenes you would normally not see, like squabbles at the birdbath or birds feeding their babies.”