Aardvarks to Zorillas - Anything goes

Am looking at using some of the web cameras as a tool to capture the birds in my bird feeder. Started googling for some of the options as it comes to using the camera and have the intelligence to go around and make some of the awesome shots of birds and other animals as they come in for a morsel. Well looks like there are a few options for the unitiated and the bold. I am looking at some of the available software to achieve this objective. iSpy : Neat little application open source and does a wonderful work of capturing pictures when motion is detected. Unfortunately Windows Only and loathe them because of how resource hungry they are. Zone Minder :  is a cool little application, runs on linux and provides you options to control multiple cameras and do a lot more stuff. It is a good animal to have and runs and suports a lot of camera sets as well as web based control framework. Ugolog Cannot be called open source, though provides a neat little service to check out the details...

From the way nature movies are made to the pretty pictures of animals that adorn your walls, the question remains Are the animals really wild or shot at one of these animal factories. A intersting take on the most loved scenes of the most interesting shots that we saw and was in awe. Is it not shocking to find them as having been faked? Been travelling across India and other parts of the world looking for wild life refuge, Have we seen something great or was it easy to spot an animal that is supposedly free ranging in that area? A trip to Sariska to look at the tigers and three days of toil and not a single one spotted. ( By then may be most of them might have been slaughtered), A few days at Nagerhole, Zilch, Looking for Nilgiri Tahr near Munnar - ended up with some of the domesticated ones - Well atleast they were free ranging, but just got used to humans that they hang around near them for their forage. Trying to check out Grizzlies in Yellowstone. Three days and none spotted and ...