NerdBird : Beaker, Banjo, Mahana

Hahn's Mini Macaw / Ferret / Jenday Conure

Ghost Crab

Added another video of a Ghost Crab a friend brought into work for me. In the Critter section.

Stag Beetle

Added video of a Reddish Brown Stag Beetle I picked up and played with for a while then let go. In the Critter section.

More Petting Zoo Videos

Some more videos have been added.

1 of Eclectus Parrots.
1 more of Lorikeet feeding.
1 of a Giraffe I just fell in love with.

More Vids

5 more new videos.

1 of a Caterpillar (joy).
1 of a crazy looking Chicken.
1 of a Great Horned Owl.
2 of me feeding Lorikeets.

All at the Claws n’ Paws Petting Zoo in Poconos, PA.

Turtle and Wolf Spider

Added 5 more videos. 2 of a wild Turtle my boss saved from the highway which I fed then let go. 3 more of a Wolf Spider my boss again captured for me. Fed and let go.

Wormball

Added 3 new videos of one of the more strange things I've seen. A large clump of tiny little worms all moving forward. At first I thought it was a piece of bark until I noticed it was moving. It's like something out of Akira. Check out Kleptoptics.net for high res photos.

Giant Grub

Added another video of one mean looking Giant Beetle Grub in the Critters section. It looks like it was on its back with what I suppose are legs in the air. The sucker was a good 1.5 to 2” long. Yikes!

Flying Fox Giving Birth

Birds Taking Flight in Ultra Slow Motion (1000 fps)

Creepy Voiced Starling

Parrots Tell the Truth

Dancing Squirrels to Michael Jackson

Hip Hop Parrot

Kudos to this FireFighter!

Bird with Balls

Animals in a Trance

TED : Einstein the Parrot

Birdy can Skate








Rays








Woodchuck? Groundhog?

Saw this at a local park but I have no idea what it is. Everything I found online didn’t quite match. I thought it was a Woodchuck but others say it’s a Groundhog. Perhaps it’s a sickly Groundhog?






Geese

Took this at a local park with Geese and Ducks just walking around.






Bunny

Just a bunny hanging out in my back yard. They are all over the place here in PA.






How we view animals










Lyrebird Remix










I must have one!








Baby Otters










More Beaker Muppet silliness










Hamster Lego Elevator










I'll miss you, Chippy!

A bit of a sad story. The last 3 or 4 years that I’ve been at my place I’ve come to know and get kind of close to a beautiful Chipmunk. We had gotten to the point where she would get within several feet from me and we’d stare and blink at each other. I’d feed her nuts and fruit and I saw her nearly every day. I had really come to enjoy her company.

Well, she ended up getting hit by a car. Sad I was devestated. After some mulling about and thinking I grabbed my hand-axe and dug a hole in my front yard, grabbed a plant and buried her. To make it more dramatic it started raining as I was digging the hole.

Here’s a video of her chirping which according to sources means she’s claiming her territory OR calling out for a mate; which I believe more since there weren’t a lot of Chipmunks around. Apologies for the shaky video.

After the video I have some pictures of her then the spot where I buried her. I miss you Chippy.



















2008.06.14-01 Chipmunk
2008.06.14-02 Chipmunk
2008.06.14-03 Chipmunk
2008.06.14-04 Chipmunk
2008.06.29-03 Chipmunk Burial
2008.06.29-04 Chipmunk Burial

Pigeon plays video games, but not well










The Amazing Weasel






Techno Chicken










Birdies love thier Tissue Pyramid






Mahana REALLY Wants To Take a Bath








Beaker in a Tube, Part 4






Beaker in a Tube, Part 3






Beaker in a Tube, Part 2








Beaker in a Tube, Part 1






Put Down the Duckie








Heart-warming





Too cute not to post





New Vid : 2008.04.25-11 Weasel Licks Camera




New Vid : 2008.04.25-10 Beaker on the Tissue Pyramid




New Vid : 2008.04.25-07 Beaker on the Tissue Pyramid





New Vid : 2008.04.25-05 Beaker & Mahana on the Tissue Pyramid




Drat, add this to my wish list too





OMG! I want one!





Wow!





Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows

This is long, but well worth it. Awesome ideas.











Insane in the Goose Brain






Dancing Parrot

This is from Perez TV but they provide no way to embed videos (from what I can tell). Had to actually rip the video and convert it. What a beach! Video quality isn't great but still very cool.










Place your bets

Bird Numa Numa





Hurray! Birds 1, Humans 0





Shave My Weasel!





New vid of Weasel (3)




New vid of Weasel (2)




New vid of Weasel




Oscar





Dog and Duck



Billiard Lessons from a Chicken



Billiard Lesson From The Chicken - video powered by Metacafe

Can you do a Chicken?

A Bird's Bad Day

Teaching Our Birds To Talk

Surfing rodents!

Just HAD to post this. I obviously love Beaker (Muppets) thus the Macaw's name.

Video 4

Ah. Last one (for now). I think I have more somewhere but this is good for one day. Mahana Doesn't Like Cameras, Part 2.

Video 3

Beaker in a Box, part 2 is uploading.

Video 2

2007.09.03-04 Mahana Doesn't Like Cameras Is up. 2 more to go.

Video

Only took me 2 months but I have a new video up. Beaker in a Box. I have 3 more on the way.

Super cool. Wish mine could do this.

New Video

Found another video to post. A few minutes of Beaker just mumbling away, saying "What's Up?", "Come on" and "Whatcha Doing?".

I'll have to get some more since both he and Mahana can say quite a bit more.

YouTube

Uploaded and converted the Show Time to pull from YouTube. Now I'll have to see if I have any more good videos or make some more.

You can view the videos from the Show Time link (which I prefer) or at http://www.youtube.com/nerdbirdbeaker .

Lazy Bird

Bath time

It's really not all that exciting, but I posted a video of Beaker taking a splash bath in the Show Time section. Woot!

Play dead

Too funny. Wish Mahana could do that.

Bird Shower (from YouTube)

Testing live stream

I have been doing the live video stream feed directly from home which is fine and all but it chews up my bandwidth especially if a few people are watching. Using a re-broadcaster like this allows me to only have one upstream and they will handle multiple downstreams. Today I've been testing out Stickam. It's ok. I like that it will do video and audio but it's laggy and the audio doesn't always come through. More than anything it's probably because I'm hosting from an old G3 iBook 500mhz. Just not enough oompfh to do it all. Tomorrow I'll try out UStream.

Right now my media center is a Mac Cube which I love dearly but it's not fast enough to do high-def content even though it has been upgraded (CPU, HD, RAM, GFX, etc.). I plan on getting a Mac Mini but damn it Apple. Update it to the Core Duo 2! So, if after WDC this month it gets a much over-due update I'll be getting a Mini to replace the Cube. Then use the Cube for the bird server which will easily handle video/audio feeds.

Video

Got around to adding some videos to the ShowTime section. It's sort of a hack so it's not that pretty but it works.

Tool Using Macaw (not mine)

Moonwalking bird

This image is a theme.plist hack