I've been uploading deposit videos to YouTube since 16-OCT. 23 days running so far. I'm rarely at home and it's been unattended during that time except for a peanut top-up and providing some caps and butts on 27-OCT, and providing more caps and butts on 07-NOV.
I'm still on Stage 4 - providing deposit material near the vending machine. Stage 5 is the goal - where a bird brings something I didn't provide.
In the last 23 days I've had 104 deposits from birds.
- only jackdaws making deposits so far
- between 4-5 deposits per day
- no jams or dispense timeouts so far
- 4 deposits were not registered by the deposit sensor - a failure rate of about 4% which I plan to address
To make the channel easier to deal with I think I will start concatenating deposit videos into daily videos or maybe weekly.
The birds set a new record today, at least since 16-OCT - 11 deposits in one day:
Sometimes the machine has a lot of lurkers waiting for a smarter bitd to make a peanut come out. Here's a jackdaw that had a plan for that.
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