Actually getting the camera into the tree took so long we had to make two separate climbs, and we didn't have much time for picture-taking. On the first day, Mont lead-climbed to the top of the tree while Elizabeth belayed him from below. Then he rigged a pulley to pull up the camera and tools that she would load into the bucket at the bottom. Here's a good picture of the bucket pulley from a later climb. Mont screwed the camera platform to the three branches, and then hauled up the power cable and coaxial cable in the pulley bucket and connected those to the camera.
Then he belayed Elizabeth up the tree, and she took both cables and unwound them after her as she climbed down. Elizabeth connected the other end of the coaxial cable to a cable extension that ran into the house and connected to the computer. She plugged the power cord into an outlet at the side of the house. Once the cables were connected, Elizabeth could watch Mont on the video feed on the laptop in Mont's office and, communicating by cell phone, tell him exactly how to point and angle the camera so it would be aimed right at the nest. Mont made the necessary adjustments, but it was getting almost too dark to see, so he had to climb down.
The next day he climbed up to the top again, checked the orientation again, and then tacked the power and video cables to the tree as he made his way down. The coaxial cable wasn't long enough to go all the way down the trunk and over to the house, so we anchored the cables to a big limb about halfway down the tree, and stretched them straight over to the corner of the house, and grounded them using the ground for the house power lines.
