Nest Stuffer in Action

The birds continue to take alpaca fiber from our nest stuffer. Our most active visitor of late has been the female oriole -- I'm reasonably certain she's a Bullock's Oriole. She visits the nest stuffer, pulls out a beak full of fiber, sits on the branch, arranges the fiber, and then flies off. Usually, she makes two or three visits to the nest stuffer and then goes off to do something else. As of right now, the our video camera is aimed at the nest stuffer and turned on. Naturally, there are no birds on the nest stuffer at the moment. Unfortunately, we have very basic digital video equipment and lack the capability to control the camera from our computers or otherwise turn it on and off remotely.

Our house is a great room with some bedrooms off one side. We have set up our office in what is supposed to be the living room -- meaning we look up from our computers and look out the picture windows at the bird feeders. (This also means we have a fireplace insert in the office which is very handy on cold winter days.) As long as we have lived in this house, we have dreamed about setting up a video camera under the eaves with remote control so we can control it from our computer chairs -- or possibly from one of the computers. We have no such device yet, so the video camera we do own is sitting on the porch rail using battery to take pictures of a nest stuffer that is not currently populated by birds. I want that oriole to come back, but right now, I'd settle for a House Sparrow.

What does all this have to do with spinning and alpacas? Well, the nest stuffer is one of our handicrafts and it is filled with third-quality alpaca fiber. Just in case you don't want to create your own nest stuffer, we offer our nest stuffers for sale in our on-line store.