Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Kestrels at Aston University.

Aston University in Birmingham, UK, recently set up a camera streaming live from a kestrel nest in one of their buildings.

Unfortunately, the nest shown on the video is not real, and is merely a digital manipulation controlled by the university's receptionists. The image of the nest itself is a picture of some Cadbury Mini Eggs from a Google image search, whilst the kestrels were created using Microsoft Paint and a freeware animation hack for that programme.

There is a real nest on the campus, but efforts at placing a camera there were in vain as the kestrels attacked the technicians attempting to set it up.

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