A backyard in Michigan, watched from dawn to dusk.
Four cameras on a cedar nest box, two feeders, and a copper bath. Live through daylight hours, with recent recordings running the rest of the time.
Playing recent recordings. Live daily 6:30am–6:30pm ET — join the live stream.
What you're looking at
A nest box on a steel pole at the edge of the woods, a pair of feeders tucked near cover, and a shallow copper bath with a solar fountain. All of it sits in an ordinary suburban backyard.
The cameras run every day through daylight. Some hours are busy. Some hours nothing happens at all, which is honest and, it turns out, the reason people leave it running.
The box is still empty
It's mounted, baffled, and facing east — everything Eastern Bluebirds are supposed to want. Nesting season in Michigan doesn't begin until March, so for now it waits.
When something finally moves in, the interior camera will be pointed at it. Get a note the day it happens.
Species ledger
Everyone recorded in the yard so far, in the order they first appeared.
11species to date
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalisYear-round
- American GoldfinchSpinus tristisDaily regular
- House FinchHaemorhous mexicanusYear-round
- Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillusYear-round
- Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolorMost days
- Blue JayCyanocitta cristataYear-round
- White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensisYear-round
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratusGround feeder
- Mourning DoveZenaida macrouraYear-round
- American RobinTurdus migratoriusSpring–fall
- House SparrowPasser domesticusYear-round
The day something moves in, you'll know
One email when the first bird claims the nest box. Then occasional notes through nesting season — eggs, hatching, first flights. Nothing else.