Day 11 — Field notes
Camera coverage exists for this day, but no narrative could be generated. Pipeline: Forge handed back. · Forge gap: ISC-1 (reference frame) wrong. · refined: ISC-1 satisfied.
Day 10 — Steady incubation; male repeatedly in cup; brief human disturbance
Continuous overnight incubation through 06:00. At 06:17, the cup was briefly empty with all five eggs visible before the female returned and settled. The morning continued with …
Three Days at the Cup: Male Finch Breaks Protocol
The clutch has held at five throughout this stretch — five pale eggs resting in the woven cup while outside the sunroom windows, May advances. What has changed, and changed …
Day 9 — Frequent male visits, two unusual events at midday
The female is on the nest at 02:00 and the next clip isn’t until 08:37, when a red male perches on the adjacent book while she sits. Similar visits at 09:29, 10:26, 10:27, …
Day 8 — Day N — Steady incubation with one courtship feeding and a brief human visit
By 10:55 the female is on the nest, deep in the cup. A short midday gap follows — at 11:52 the cup is briefly empty with one egg visible — before she returns by 11:54, partly …
Day 7 — Day N — Male repeatedly on the nest cup
Overnight incubation was steady but interrupted. Between 00:00 and 06:00, the female cycled on and off in roughly 15–45 minute increments, with empty stretches at 00:45–01:00, …
Nest Relief, Male Intrusion, and the Steady Five-Egg Vigil
The old bookshelf camera logged its final useful frames on the evening of April 28, handing off to the Reolink as the female settled in for the night. That transition — both …
Day 6 — A brief morning visit before an empty nest.
The day’s activity begins with the male visiting the incubating female at the nest. A short while later, the female takes a break, leaving the single egg unattended in the …
Day 5 — Day N — Male shows up at the nest; multiple incubation reliefs
By 06:11 the female is on the cup. She lifts off twice in the next half hour — at 06:16 and 06:36 the nest sits empty with two eggs visible from the camera angle — and returns at …
Day 4 — Frequent short reliefs; camera work mid-afternoon clears the nest
The female is on the eggs at 06:00 and 06:03, gone by 06:39. The cup sits empty through the early morning until 08:23, when she arrives, settles briefly, and departs. The morning …
Three Days Watching a House Finch Through Early Incubation
The nest sits inside the house, tucked in a cup of dried grass on a bookshelf in the sunroom — a domestic situation, yet governed entirely by wild rhythms. Three days of …
Day 3 — Frequent short reliefs; male visits the nest area at 10:17
Pre-dawn coverage starts with the female on the nest at 06:16 and 06:23, shifting briefly to expose the eggs. She’s off by 06:28, and the empty cup with all five eggs is …
Day 2 — Sparse incubation, brief midday human disturbance
Five eggs visible in the cup throughout the day. Coverage is sparse — most clips show the nest empty. Early morning, the cup is unattended at 06:22 and 06:23. At 06:41 a male …
Day 1 — Sparse iPhone coverage; female on nest by evening
Coverage today is mostly hand-held iPhone shots, with one clip from the bookshelf camera at the end of the day. A short burst of iPhone photos around 16:06 shows the nest empty. …