Month: December 2021

Thursday (09-December-2021) — New Jersey

Autumn Backyard Nature in New Jersey.

Birds of the day viewed at the birdfeeder and in the backyard: Red-bellied Woodpecker, House Finch.

The slideshow is still not working. Tried to use the new PhotoShelter Importer plugin for WordPress to import images for the photoblog. Doesn’t seem to see TIF images. So back to manually importing images one at a time. There was a previous PhotoShelter Importer that was really easy to use. Unfortunately, it stopped working 2 years ago (didn’t accept my username/password)

Red-bellied Woodpecker. (David J Mathre)
Red-bellied Woodpecker. Image taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens. (David J Mathre)
House Finch. (David J Mathre)
House Finch. Image taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens. (David J Mathre)

Daily Electric Energy Used (64.6 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (27.1 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Cloudy. Geothermal HVAC heating the house. Deficit of 37.5 kWh.

Wednesday (08-December-2021) — New Jersey

Autumn Backyard Nature in New Jersey.

Birds of the day viewed at the birdfeeder and in the backyard: Mourning Dove, Blue Jay, Black-capped Chickadee, House Finch, Dark-eyed Junco.

I am trying to figure out the problem with the following slideshow. (10-Decmber-2021 Update: PhotoShelter provided a fix to the slideshow problem).


Birds of the day. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Time-lapse Videos of the Day with Red Rover. (1) Completed assembly of the 4th Shelter Logic storage shed. The frame remained up overnight (no strong winds) prior to attaching the ground anchors. This one has a rounded roof, and we will see if it does better when the snow comes. (2) Assembled a Titan 3-Point Subsoiler Single Tine Ripper, then used it to pull out some old agricultural fabric.

Daily Electric Energy Used (65.8 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (10.7 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Cloudy. Geothermal HVAC heating the house. Deficit of 55.1 kWh.

Tuesday (07-December-2021) — New Jersey

Autumn Backyard Nature in New Jersey.

Birds of the day viewed at the birdfeeder and in the backyard: Mourning Dove, Downy Woodpecker, Blue Jay, Black-capped Chickadee, House Finch, Dark-eyed Junco.


Birds of the day. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Time-lapse Videos of the Day. Assembly of the 4th ShelterLogic storage shed. This one has a rounded roof, and we will see if it does better when the snow comes. 1) Morning, assembling the frame. 2) Afternoon, back and front walls. Didn’t finish with the top or anchors as the sun started to go down. Just hope not too much wind overnight.

Daily Electric Energy Used (64.8 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (25.2 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Sun and clouds. Geothermal HVAC heating the house. Deficit of 39.6 kWh.

Monday (06-December-2021) — New Jersey

Autumn Backyard Nature in New Jersey.

Birds of the day viewed at the birdfeeder and in the backyard: Blue Jay, Black-capped Chickadee, House Finch, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal.

House Finch, Black-capped Chickadee. (David J Mathre)
House Finch, Black-capped Chickadee. Image taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens. (David J Mathre)


Birds of the day. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.

Daily Electric Energy Used (44.9 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (11.7 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Sun and clouds. Geothermal HVAC heating the house. Deficit of 33.2 kWh.

Sunday (05-December-2021) — New Jersey

Autumn Backyard Nature in New Jersey.

Birds of the day viewed at the birdfeeder and in the backyard: The birds seem to have been missing today. I don’t know if there is a hawk in the area.

Time-lapse videos. Maybe the last leaf vacuum run this year on Red Rover. (1) Little Planet view. (2) Equirectangular view.

Daily Electric Energy Used (60.5 kWh) from Sense. Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (20.4 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Sun and clouds. Geothermal HVAC heating the house. Deficit of 40.1 kWh.

Weekly Electric Energy Used (430 kWh) from Sense. weekly Solar Electric Energy Produced (151 kWh) from Sense and SolSystems. Geothermal HVAC heating the house. Deficit of 279 kWh.