Your donation of equipment or money will go towards CorkNest project and nothing else. The main costs are as follows:

• Ongoing nestbox design & hardware
  • Board cameras, outside camera, replacing damaged cameras (irish damp weather!)
  • LED lighting white & infra red
  • Lighting control circuit and mains timers
  • 40 meters cabling: 3x Video, Audio, 12v power
  • Power supplies - 5x 12 volt transformers
  • 4 Channel video to USB box (RapidOS) connected to laptop for broadcasting pics
  • DVR security video recorder, 4 channels
  • 2x Microphones and preamps
  • Off the shelf next boxes that are then modifed
• Web hosting and Domain name Domain name for CorkNest.com
• Bird food & feeders:
  • 2 bag 25kg peanuts for year round supply
  • 2 lots (look away now if you're squeamish...) 500g live mealworms used after hatching to help the parents in case the natural food supply is in short supply.
• Dedicated wireless Broadband for video and live pictures uploading from a laptop.
• Video streaming sofware, need to purchase i-catcher
• Additional 'pilot' nest boxes in the garden with a cheap single camera to increase chances of nest box occupation. As soon as it looks like the box is going to be adopted it's replaced with a multi cam one. There are currently 2 nestboxes 1 pilot & 1 multicam.

Then next big challenge is to get in closer to the newly hatched chicks.

For donations over €2.50 you will recieve a free DVD of all the video and pics on this site (it just saves you downloading them from here). It will be posted world-wide. The 2010 videos are in Windows player format (WMV) and better quality AVI (for free VLC player) formats for use on your computer. It includes clips from all 3 cameras - outside, overhead and close up side cameras. The sound is in stereo - the microphones are at nest level on opposide sides of the box - so stick on you headphones and turn up the volume!