tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44449301646222014922023-11-16T14:51:38.668+01:00The Nistkasten Adventure - a birdy, a birdy, my kingdom for a birdy....! blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-57174497036494327192016-05-22T11:59:00.002+02:002016-05-22T12:00:40.811+02:00How many can you count?<br />
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<br />blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-31207552735068337972016-05-16T09:52:00.000+02:002016-05-16T09:52:59.268+02:00The power of the little things in the big thingsThe title of this blog might seem a bit silly, and even phrased poorly.<br />
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Perhaps it is but I wanted a simple title to convey something which in my view is really simple and yet so powerful.<br />
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It is an undeniable fact that what makes machines works is the care taken in making sure that all the details are right. No machine, no grand scheme, no space mission, no policy would work if the details were not just right. <br />
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So, yes, the details are important. Why else would there be the expression: the devil is in the details? An expression, by the way, that exists in more than one language.<br />
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But the details too have their place. And this place is none else than the refinement of the grand scheme of things.<br />
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The greatness of a plan lies both in the goal that it aims for and in the details towards making it happen. An overarching aim, a worthy objective, a vision, if you will, of what should be striven for.<br />
Dreams and responsible action are big goals - the details make them reality.<br />
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Details without a goal are just as lost and lonely as a goal without details.<br />
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In space activities all of this applies. And knowing when to address which with adequate intensity is of the utmost importance. Space activities are not one-offs. Each fits, each should fit in a grand scheme. No detail should be wasted by fighting by itself - wandering aimlessly in the vastness of vacuum.<br />
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For this reason it is big objectives that we need:<br />
- sustainability of space activities - clean space both in technology and through policies<br />
- space situational awareness, space weather, space traffic and capabilities to protect assets and life both in space as well as on Earth - debris - active deorbit, just-in-time measures, asteroids<br />
- space transportation as a seamless chain - from Earth and in orbit - as a service<br />
- service oriented space<br />
- science in all activities<br />
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For ESA and for me there is one overarching goal:<br />
European spirit, identity and cohesion <br />
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I will be writing more about this.<br />
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Four of eight eggs have hatched.<br />
It is the first time this has happened. Generally one or two do not hatched, but I have never had four unhatched eggs before, i.e. half in this case - not particularly good considering the effort of laying eggs.<br />
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The four hatchlings are well, the weather is good and hopefully will stay thus.<br />
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I just bought and installed a 2TB internal harddrive so that I can recording the happenings while I am away in Paris.<br />
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Paris - I can't believe it has been nearly three weeks. And what a wonderful three weeks. I met many new people and was showered with welcoming converstations with many different people with very different backgrounds and positions.<br />
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I have met two Sylvies, many Isabelles, Nicole, Elena, Ulrike, Charlotte....men too of course Jean, Alexander, Toni, Franco, Fabrizio, ....the list is long! Ursula is helping me getting my organisational self sorted and Katrin is being a star at keeping me posted and getting me integrated. I saw some of my previous colleagues as well, which always makes me happy.<br />
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I had a full SSA day at ESOC last Wednesday thanks to some of Rolf's
team members - Clare, Nicolas and Alexander - and I can only say thank
you for welcoming me so. I met some of the others over lunch, Holger,
Bertrand, ...<br />
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Rolf was so kind as to personally give me a mini-tour of ESOC (Darmstadt). I'm looking forward to my trip to ESTEC (The Netherlands) on the 18th. Though I have been there before, this will obviously be different. On the 17th I'll be at ECSAT, Harwell, UK.<br />
I very much enjoyed my first exchange with Magali (Vaissiere). We spoke for about 1 hour and it felt like 10 minutes. It was pleasant but to the point and dynamic - just the way I like things.<br />
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I'm loving every bit of ESA with its wonderful complexity and mix. <br />
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Amongst the goals I have set myself is that of meeting every single person that works at ESA....<br />
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Monday I was briefly at the Space Propulsion Conference for the opening panel session on Space Missions: Mid and Long-Term Policies. I think, should I again be given the opportunity to moderate a panel, I will do it differently. I had asked the panel members to concentrate specifically on cooperation and this they did to my greatest pleasure!<br />
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At any rate, I am thrilled to be at ESA and even more because of the job ahead - as Alvaro so nicely put it: "very interesting and plenty of possibilities for the future of ESA". I do truly believe that space is more than just inspiring - space can do so much for humanity and I will certainly do my utmost to contribute as best I can.<br />
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Followed by a discovery of the various levels of ESA HQ Nikis and of who sits where. Met more nice and friendly people. Asked for some posters to add some colour to my new office. Discovered some hardware along the way.<br />
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PA by day, lecturer by night. blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-66043147006760522672016-04-18T22:14:00.002+02:002016-04-18T22:21:36.751+02:00ESA Programme Advisor at the ready?Yes! Programme Advisor to the Director General at the ready!<br />
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Yes, I know, this is supposed to be a blog about birdies. Real birdies. Not about some human thinking that because she is taking on a new super cool job, with wonderful new perspectives and responsibilities, that she too can fly just like a birdy.<br />
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But I just can't help it. I am so eager to take everything that I have learned so far and put it at the service of ESA and hence of Europe! Working hard is something I am seriously looking forward to. That, together with all the challenges that I know lie ahead.<br />
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What is there not to be excited about and hence feel like you are flying?blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-35589991271495474202016-04-16T17:13:00.001+02:002016-04-16T17:21:50.630+02:00High Season... ...I am thrilled!<br />
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I discovered a nest of Black Redstart (<i>Phoenicurus ochruros</i>) in the carport.<br />
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Two eggs so far. I will check again tomorrow. I have no idea how many eggs they generally lay. It is a mostly moss, twigs, dried grass nest. I will post pictures later.<br />
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And I saw a Blue Tit carrying moss into the wooden nesting box in the east-wing.<br />
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Yesterday was my last day at work, party and everything. I did not think that it would be quite so hard. Or rather, I knew that it would be hard but knowing is one thing, living it is another.</div>
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It feels weird leaving ones nest, as I call it, and at the same time it feels right. In some ways it is not different from when I left home for uni. In most ways it is exactly the same thing, the only thing being different, when all the details like space and time are shed, is how I see and relate to the events around me.</div>
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Back in days... in Köln....as a PhD Student who had decided that space transportation systems are THE enablers of all space activities.<br />
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But this is not a post intended for reminiscence. It is a thank you post and a forward-looking one.<br />
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Thank you to all those that pushed me forward not by pushing but just by serving my infinite curiosity and my enthusiam with chances. <br />
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The chance for a PhD, the chance to do testing at a testbench, the chance to build up a group and bring people together, the
chance to pose questions and find and provide answers, to guide and be
guided.....the chance to find solutions in scientific research, the chance to address high-level concerns and again bring even more people together to help decision makers provide the right answers, the chance to question standards and indicate alternative routes, and to then follow these other roads to success and shared joy and pride, the chance to grow and discover through hard work and dedication,....the list is truly endless,....<br />
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I, for one thing, I am looking forward to my next destination and even more to the road thereto.<br />
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I went to visit my PhD supervisor today - my second PhD - to inform him that I will not be able to continue as my road to ESA will no longer allow me to find the time to do what I had embared upon a few years ago (back then when I had but my group and research in Lampoldshausen): exoplanets and SOFIA.<br />
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I entered his office with a heavy heart as I felt that I had to part from something that I did not want to part from. I left happy having discovered a whole new level of interation with him: not student and professor, but rather two people interested in making a seemless chain of innovation in space a reality.<br />
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Chances.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is based on observations of past years. Great Tit females I have observed in the past started sleeping in the completed nest, only after they had started laying eggs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As, however, this birdy seems to be going about things s<span style="font-family: inherit;">l</span>ightly differently she might be also <span style="font-family: inherit;">ignoring</span> what I just assume is a co<span style="font-family: inherit;">nstant in the Great Tit world</span>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At any rate assuming she did lay an egg we can also just count the days (1 egg/day at most)...and perhaps that will also help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">...and...just because I can...a cool space video: <span style="color: #202020; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://blueorigin.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ca4c14684ac1af3f1219b4382&id=22f483ee24&e=0f62ac95bf" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2baadf;">http://</span></a><a href="http://blueorigin.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca4c14684ac1af3f1219b4382&id=a9f21c80db&e=0f62ac95bf" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2baadf;">bit.ly/1Y9cqBM</span></a></span></span></span>blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-10335953578457777582016-04-01T22:23:00.003+02:002016-04-02T20:11:55.406+02:00Just for the record..yeah, just for the record. Oh and it was not an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day">April Fools'</a>...<br />
blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-39085746423753342862016-03-31T12:20:00.001+02:002016-04-01T22:37:41.503+02:00The more I know, the more......I know that I know nothing compare to all that there is that could be known.<br />
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It is the one amazing thing about bird watching, about science, about knowledge in general.<br />
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Much of what we do, think, much of how we act and interpret the world around us is based on strings of observations, some related some unrelated. We fill in the gaps and construct what we call knowledge.<br />
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Data - information - knowledge. There is a great deal of processing along the way.<br />
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I have now observed Great Tits building nests for the past 10+ years and had established what I thought was a solid hypothesis that Great Tits build their nests mostly out of moss, some dried grass and some soft material, like animal fur.<br />
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I always examined the nests once their owners had left and the hatchlings too. And twigs were just not in the mix. <br />
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In an earlier post this week (<a href="http://nistkasten-project.blogspot.de/2016/03/just-when-things-start-getting-exciting.html">Just when things start getting exciting...</a>) I commented on the fact that the nesting box was filled with twigs, thin ones, but twigs nonetheless. I conjectured that Eurasian Tree Sparrows might have been active in the nesting box as this is what I had observed in the past.<br />
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Well, my friendly readers, I was wrong. Or rather, I now think that I was wrong.<br />
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Why Sherlock?<br />
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Simple dear Watson!<br />
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Today, I observed, for the first time since bird watching, the female Great Tit bring in twigs. Together with some dried grass and moss, she did bring in a significant amount of small twigs.<br />
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Now, the question is: was I blind all these years?<br />
Or is something different this year?<br />
Or is this a revolutionary birdy that has decided to do things differently?<br />
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So now another chapter begins in the Nistkasten Adventure.<br />
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Oh, and Blue Tit also flew past, and peered inside. The season is starting sizzle with nestbox hunting. Oh! how I love it!!<br />
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It is kind of a surprise, but I don't know if it will work. So it is a double surprise, for the surprisee and the surprisor.<br />
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Many years ago, when I was younger and you even more so, two friends met, and did not speak. They did not speak, because, back then, they were not friends. They were meerly two students going about their studying, the one getting high on sugar, the other on discovering the world.<br />
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It took a while....many many stories in between which I shall not report here because it would just take too long...but at last they became friends and are every since!<br />
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So well, here is to you, as a surprise: Happy Birthday!<br />
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<br />blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-80576079121018877272016-03-29T22:13:00.003+02:002016-03-29T22:22:57.879+02:00Has Spring arrived at last?<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tonight, for the first night this year, no bird is sleeping in the nesting box. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This happens when (a) the temperatures are high enough, and (b) when the birds start building nests. As these two generally happen at the same time, it is kind of hard to tell which one is the forcing factor. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today, a male and a female Great Tit examined both this nesting box (wood-concrete) and the wooden one out the front of the garden. <span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">I
must say that nesting-box-apartment-search-time is one of my favourite! The
birds engage in both searching, examining, courting rituals,...the calls...the
movements, the careful examinations, the careful observing of the surroundings.
It is one magnificent display and I could just watch for hours</span>.</span></span>blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-70056875449497484602016-03-28T19:42:00.000+02:002016-03-28T19:43:01.396+02:00Birdy Big Brother<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...not really much to add to that!blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-60631446096650374862016-03-28T19:15:00.000+02:002016-03-29T15:59:12.934+02:00Citizen of the Galaxy...<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">...one of many books I enjoyed years ago. One of Heinlein juveniles on the topics of slavery, responsibility and citizenship.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First edition cover (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_of_the_Galaxy)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Colonel Brisby had once said, about Pop: "It means being so devoted to <span class="highlight selected">free</span>dom that you are willing to give up your own . . . be a beggar . . . or a slave . . . or die -- that freedom may live."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Give your mind a rest and use your eyes instead. There's a time and place for everything."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> "You're right, Jim."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> "Goodnight, son," the old beggar whispered. "Good dreams . . . and good luck!"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-78883002684786970232016-03-28T12:53:00.000+02:002016-03-28T13:49:26.589+02:00Setbacks, beginnings, and Gulliverian reflectionsSetbacks are never an easy thing.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Especially so when on the
one hand you know that that which is in your range of influence is marginally
not enough to undo the current state of affairs and move things forward
constructively and on the other hand that which lies ahead is a larger endeavour,
not separate just larger, enlightened with a broader range of influence and
responsibility, the delightful responsibility that comes with the chance to
enable, and is drenched with its apparently inseparable counterpart - the
unrelenting supremacy of survival of the one over survival of content -
multiplied and transmitted subliminally.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An image suddenly springs to mind: Gulliver...</span><br />
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...in Gulliver's Travels (http://4umi.com/swift/gulliver/) by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Large and small endeavours
alike share obstacles and setbacks. How is it that building a nesting box to
visualise what happens inside is not unlike larger endeavours?</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I shall recount and we will
see....</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have already partially
recounted what I did to attain my goal of peering inside my first nesting box:
http://nistkasten-project.blogspot.de/2010/03/my-nistkasten-project-2010.html </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What I did not recount is that prior
to me starting, I, excited as I always am when I discover something new, be it
the smallest screw ever seen - by me, or something as fascinating as proprioception in combination with the doings of gravitational microlensing...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> galaxy cluster: SDSS J1038+4849 - Hubble Space Telescope - Wide Field Planetary Camera 2</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">...spoke to everyone
willing to listen about the adventure I wanted to embark on.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To my utmost surprise I was
told that what I wanted to do would never work<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What?! Something so utterly
cool and all I get is: "it will never work".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Why?" </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Because"</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Because?!" </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Yeah, because it
won't"</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cleverly insightful. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was upset and disappointed.
And what was more I was upset and disappointed that I was upset and disappointed. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oh so really </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">really </span></span>silly really.
The human condition of "not invented here" and of being a human
unwilling to accept that there can be such a thing as "not invented
here".</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Worries, fears, disappointment<span style="font-family: inherit;">, <span style="font-family: inherit;">isolationism.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I prefer responsibility,
curiosity, fascination, openness, .... in the face of opportunities, challenges
and dangers alike.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If the universe can smile
in the face of the forces at work, then I too shall do the same, <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">unremittingly</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">!</span> </span></span><br />
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The images of last night show that a Great Tit is sleeping in the nesting box which already has some nesting material in it.<br />
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Now the wierd thing is: the material that is in there is clearly not moss. And that is a good or a bad thing depending on which birdy you wish to see nesting.<br />
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The current content is twigs. The twigs and the way they are placed may indicate sparrows. Perhaps Eurasian Tree Sparrows.<br />
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And hence the drama may unfold yet again. The usual territorial fight: Eurasian Tree Sparrows vs. Great Tits.<br />
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I have not seen many Blue Tits looking at the nesting box. Then again, I have not been around much to state that I have performed careful and extended observations, so I might be wrong.<br />
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I observed a Great Tit bringing in stuff thing morning. I will continue to observe and in the meantime try to fix the videoserver.<br />
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Until then I wish you all a serene Easter.blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-90135210618315859282016-01-01T18:52:00.001+01:002016-01-23T14:26:31.680+01:002016!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I spent some time writing a python code for streaming to a server (which I shall post as soon as it is completed). </div>
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And then I played around with the desktop settings of Raspian to be more "spacey"....for my Feng Shui and well for a myriad of other reasons, including: should I forget what it is that I do professionally, I now have to only turn on my Pi and stare at the desktop in oblivious ignorance! Soooo simple! :-)</div>
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And this what I have come up with so far in terms of the nesting box. I will not refine it at the moment and will play it by ear as I construct it. I have to add some inner structure to it as I will be making both the front and sides "openable". </div>
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Oh!...and....a happy and serene 2016 to all!</div>
blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-33865930408313073822015-12-27T20:36:00.001+01:002015-12-27T21:41:15.502+01:00Pi-Birdies! Part VI - TechnobabbelTrying to write a python programme to stream to a server and hence am reading up on network services, protocols, sockets and the likes and then trying to explain this to someone whilst myself trying to understand why it is not working..... what ensues is definitely technobabbel (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technobabble">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technobabble</a>) on my part.... that is what it feels like at any rate!<br />
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Someone remarked: "sockets are small socks"....blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-84356207826084927902015-12-27T16:36:00.000+01:002015-12-27T21:41:33.000+01:00Pi-Birdies! Part V - parts which are still missingJust a few quick and rough annotations as to things that I wish to add:<br />
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Camera Multiplexer - for more than one camera (<a href="http://www.ivmech.com/">http://www.ivmech.com/</a>)<br />
very much like so: <a href="https://hackaday.io/project/2847-ivport-raspberry-pi-camera-module-multiplexer">https://hackaday.io/project/2847-ivport-raspberry-pi-camera-module-multiplexer</a>, requiring <a href="https://github.com/ivmech/ivport">https://github.com/ivmech/ivport</a><br />
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GPS - ok just a gimmick.... because I can for the moment - bringing birdies and space together is a thrilling idea - but mostly for the future when nesting boxes will populate the woods and scientists need the GPS position of the boxes. At any rate this is what I intend to do: <a href="https://learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/adafruit-ultimate-gps-on-the-raspberry-pi.pdf">https://learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/adafruit-ultimate-gps-on-the-raspberry-pi.pdf</a><br />
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Bluetooth - ...as already mentioned before<br />
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Sensors - of various types...blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-22788672194462923302015-12-27T15:11:00.005+01:002015-12-27T21:41:42.814+01:00Pi-Birdies! Part IV - RPi-Cam-Web-Interface and JUICE: ESA's JUpiter ICy moons ExplorerAnd another thing....<br />
I discovered this in my attempt to avoid programming a whole web-interface! Open-source is indeed something quite fantastic.<br />
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It is called the RPi-Cam-Web-Interface and it is great.<br />
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So all I do is:<br />
ifconfig .... check out the ip address ... <a href="http://192.168.1.4/">http://192.168.1.4/</a> ... and voila' ...<br />
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...off to Jupiter and its moons.... <br />
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..which brings to mind ESA's JUICE Mission <a href="http://sci.esa.int/juice/">http://sci.esa.int/juice/</a></div>
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The mission "The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) will perform detailed investigations of Jupiter and its system in all their inter-relations and complexity with particular emphasis on Ganymede as a planetary body and potential habitat. Investigations of Europa and Callisto would complete a comparative picture of the Galilean moons." [<a href="http://sci.esa.int/juice/50068-science-objectives/">http://sci.esa.int/juice/50068-science-objectives/</a>]</div>
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"The JUICE mission will address two themes of ESA's Cosmic Vision programme: <em>What are the conditions for planet formation and emergence of life? and How does the Solar System work?"</em></div>
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I am quite exicted about JUICE and in addition to the wonders of space science it also reminds me of "Farmer in the Sky"... </div>
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...<span class="st">a 1950 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenaged boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede... [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_in_the_Sky">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_in_the_Sky</a>]).</span></div>
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<em>...for, as an esteemed colleague pointed out to me this year at the IAC, we are Solarians.... </em></div>
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blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-37650395423542435612015-12-27T14:39:00.000+01:002015-12-27T21:41:53.246+01:00Pi-Birdies! Part III - Pi-Python Knowledge (camera, sensors and ftp)<span style="font-family: inherit;">I feel like sharing some acquired, though by no means the finest of, pi-phython-knowledge for those that like myself need such a thing...</span><br />
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
There are various parts to this code, which I again wish to precise, is by no means a finished product:<br />
Part (1) - ftp connection<br />
Part (2) - camera activation<br />
Part (3) - sensory information retrieval<br />
Part (4) - overlaying sensory information on camera stream<br />
Part (5) - capture image<br />
Part (6) - upload image to ftp server<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"># -*- coding: utf-8 -*-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">import io</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">import time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">import picamera</span><br />
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# Part (1)<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"># import ftp library</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">import ftplib #sufficient actually to import only the class FTP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">meinftp = ftplib.FTP("ftp.XXX.XXX.de","username","pwd") #important to only specify the ftp main address and not a subdirectory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">directory = '/webspace/httpdocs/bought-the-pasta/videos/livestream/' #intended ftp-directory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">meinftp.cwd(directory) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#local upload-directory</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">directory_local='/home/pi/Desktop/' #/home/pi/1-NistkastenProjekt/timelapse/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">print "ftp: So sieht der Inhalt von ",directory, " vor dem Upload aus:"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">print</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">meinftp.retrlines('LIST') </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#my_stream = io.BytesIO()</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"># Part (2)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> #(this here should all be indented)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> # camera settings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.resolution = (1024,768)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.sharpness = 0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.contrast = 0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.brightness = 50</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.saturation = 0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.ISO = 0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.video_stabilization = False</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.exposure_compensation = 0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.exposure_mode = 'auto'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.meter_mode = 'average'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.awb_mode = 'auto'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.image_effect = 'none'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.color_effects = None</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.rotation = 0</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.hflip = False</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.vflip = False</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.crop = (0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.start_preview()</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> # Part (3)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> from sense_hat import SenseHat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> sense = SenseHat()</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> #print("check")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> while True:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">#(again indent)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> t = sense.get_temperature()</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> p = sense.get_pressure()</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> h = sense.get_humidity()</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> t = round(t, 1)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> p = round(p, 1)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> h = round(h, 1)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> #print("Temp [</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">C] = %s, Press =%s, Humidity =%s" % (t,p,h))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> #sense.show_message(" ", scroll_speed=0.1)<br />
ttext = str(t)<br />
ptext = str(p)<br />
htext = str(h)<br />
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fulltext = "Temp: " + ttext + " [C]; Press: " + ptext + "; Hum: " + htext<br />
fulltext = "Pi-Birdies! " + fulltext<br />
#print(fulltext)<br />
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# Part (4)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> camera.annotate_text = fulltext #("Pi-Birdies!""temp:",(ttext,ptext,htext))<br />
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# Part (5) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> time.sleep(2)<br />
camera.capture(my_stream,'jpeg')<br />
camera.capture('/home/pi/Desktop/SnapshotStream000.jpg')<br />
#camera.stop_preview()
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filename = 'SnapshotStream000.jpg'</span><br />
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print<br />
print 'Location and name of the local file: ' + directory_local + filename<br />
print
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# Part (6) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> file = open(directory_local+filename, 'rb') #reading mode<br />
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print 'Upload: ftp-Server: ' + directory + filename<br />
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#'STOR ' the required ftp command</span><br />
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meinftp.storbinary('Stor '+filename, file)<br />
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print "ftp: content of directory ",directory, " after upload:"<br />
print<br />
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meinftp.retrlines('LIST') <br />
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print<br />
print 'Die lokale Datei ' + directory_local+filename +' wird geschlossen.'<br />
file.close()<br />
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#print meinftp.quit() #terminate FTP-connection<br />
#print<br />
#print 'Die FTP-connection terminated.'
</span>blauermangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05498105959119402405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444930164622201492.post-33702687776970797442015-12-27T01:13:00.003+01:002015-12-27T21:42:27.989+01:00Pi-Birdies! Part II - Pi-Nest 1st Design Attempt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Pi-Nest for the Pi-Birdies - Design @ 01:12 on the 27th of December... </div>
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