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 hidden behind the spine of Shoe Dog. She is back settled at 12:34, with unusually pronounced red on the head and chest for a female.

At 13:50 the male appears, perched on the adjacent books while she sits; the clip captures courtship feeding. She continues incubating through 13:58.

A late-afternoon break runs from roughly 17:11 to 17:22. At 17:11 she’s off, with a small bird perched on a horizontal bar well to the right of the nest. At 17:21 the cup shows three eggs and a person passes through frame; at 17:22 a human arm and head are close to the nest area, apparently doing something near the camera. The Wyze clip at 17:22:47 is blurry and overexposed, with a stray frame stamped 2026-05-07 — likely a camera bump or clock glitch around the time of the human interaction.

She is back on the eggs by 17:41 and stays put through 17:42. At 18:40 the cup is briefly empty again with the male visible just below the nest; she’s resettled by 18:42. A short gap at 19:12 shows all five eggs clearly in the empty cup, and she’s back at 19:16.

From 19:54 onward the cameras shift to IR. She remains on the nest continuously through 20:05, 20:16, 20:17, 20:19, 20:33, 20:44, 20:57, 21:05, 21:12, 21:14, 21:22 and 21:35, shifting position slightly but not leaving.

Notable: courtship feeding by the male at 13:50, and a human at the nest around 17:22 coinciding with the corrupted Wyze frame.

Pipeline: No infrastructure changes this day.

Day’s metrics.

• Clips: 31
• Sunrise / sunset: 06:11 / 19:59 PT
• On-cup share: 60.8%
• Dad visits: 4
• Feeding clips: 4
• Max eggs visible: 5