Backyard wildlife observatory
One camera watches the Hawk Tree, the Meadow, the Berm and the Creek Corridor around the clock. Every PHIND is a real moment pulled out of those hours, and the best ones are laser-engraved on wood.
15:41:05. The push-off: wings at the top of the first beat, feet just clear of HT. Half a second later it drops off and circles back.
The Phiborne Phinder records the PHIELD day and night, every day.
Hours of footage are searched for anything that moved. Then the hour before and after gets a look too.
The moment is cut as a master, untouched, exactly as the camera saw it.
One still is framed for an 11¾ × 1¼ in wood shim and burned in with a laser.
Every piece is numbered. Its card's QR code plays the moment it came from.
New PHINDS, the stories behind them, and first pick when new PHIMS are released.
Nothing staged, nothing baited. The clock in the corner is the camera's own.
Each PHIM is one still from one PHIND, framed to follow the subject and laser-engraved on a slim wood shim. A hawk perched on the Hawk Tree runs vertical. A deer crossing runs horizontal.
The slim line. One scene on an 11¾ × 1¼ in tapered shim, numbered as a small Field Edition.
Bigger pieces on wider stock. A single scene with room to breathe, or several scenes from one PHIND on one piece.
PHIBORNE is about what's different. The shims were already on hand. The question was whether a whole scene could fit on something that slim, and the laser answered it.
Every PHIM comes with a card. Scan its QR code, or type the code printed on it.
Preview clip. The footage stays with PHIBORNE; this piece's link is its proof.
© PHIBORNE. This piece is yours; the footage stays ours.
It started with a clip of a hawk passing through an opening. Then I went sleuthing: a whole hour before and after. That's when the layers started showing up.
One hour on Oct 6, one wide view of the whole PHIELD, and a lot more going on than one hawk.
The Phiborne Phinder sits under the deck eave and records the PHIELD around the clock, from the wide view down to a full zoom on the Hawk Tree. Its infrared is the only light at night. Nothing is added that would bother the wildlife or the neighbors.
The ALL ACCESS view, exactly as the camera sees it. Labels are drawn on top.
The tall dead trunk where the hawks perch. The camera was bought for it.
Two pale dead poles just right of the Hawk Tree.
At the point of the Meadow, where the deer step out.
In the brush between Point Tree and the base of the Hawk Tree.
The left treeline, Upper nearest the camera, Lower at the far end. The Corridor W feeding tree stands near TLW-L.
The band of tall grass between the lawn and the woods.
The wooded edge on the right. The creek runs behind it, out of sight.
Berm West, Berm Central in front of the shed, and the Berm Trail behind them, running on through Berm East out of view.
The sky above and behind the Hawk Tree where the raptors soar.
From the wide view, the PHINDER zooms to these spots when something shows up.
