News :: Enjoy Birds More Limited

March 2010: Large Bird Camera Nest Box launched. This new bird box camera has all the same features and electronics as the world-beating Garden Nest Box in a nest box suitable for larger birds such as Pigeon, Little Owl, Thrush, Jackdaw, etc.
January 2010: Eco Bird Feeder launched. A wooden bird feeder with an inbuilt close up bird camera is what our customers told us was needed, and shows views of the birds as you have never seen them.
December 2009: The Eco Nest Box now has a Battery Box. The Eco Nest Box, our mid-range colour wireless camera bird box, now comes with a switched battery box and 2.5 metre (approx) cable, which means it will last for several days on one set of batteries, and when you come to switch off for a while or change the batteries, you can do so in comfort at the bottom of the tree.
October 2009: The new Wildlife Listener - Viewer (C12) launched. An amazing long distance electronic listening device with 8 x magnification telescope. Hear the sounds of wildlife as you have never heard them before for only £50.
September 2009: Launch of our new camera nest box : The Eco Mono Nest Box (B4). Use it wired or wireless, for black and white images and sounds. All this for £100! (Now Reduced yo £89.99)
August 2009: Our well established Eco Nest Box gets a facelift: the new wooden box looks better in the garden, now has a side window to let the light in and provides a better environment inside for the birds.
June 2009: Enjoy Birds More Ltd has been shortlisted in the 2009 Nectar Business Small Business Awards for the UK.
January 2009: Compost your packaging. Enjoy Birds More reached a milestone in its quest to reach the elusive 100%. All the packaging, including tape and labels used by Enjoy Birds More can now be recycled by composting. This has been a long term goal of the company for over a year, and we have been assisted by Envirowise.
November 2008: BBC Hereford and Worcester features Enjoy Birds More and The Nestbox Company Limited.
October 2008: The Nestbox Company the UK's leading manufacturer of nesting boxes, feeders and homes for birds, small mammals and insects, joins forces with Enjoy Birds More. Announcing the acquisition of The Nestbox Company by Enjoy Birds More, Peter Bubb, managing director of Enjoy Birds More said "These companies are natural partners, sharing a passion for nature and a commitment to innovative design." The Nestbox Company will continue as an independent business manufacturing nest boxes for birds, small mammals and insects, and bird feeders.
September 2008: Increase in performance and PRICE REDUCTION on our Rechargeable High Capacity Battery Set. We have improved the amount of charge these batteries hold to a staggering 10,000 mAh (previously they were 7,000 mAh, which we thought was good!). Over their lifetime, these rechargeable batteries now work out at about 22 times cheaper than alkaline throwaway batteries. Why not run your camera nest box or wildlife camera on rechargeable batteries, do your bit to help save the planet and save money at the same time?
August 2008: New Network Server launched. This is what our customers told us they wanted. With this small device you can connect your camera nest box or wildlife camera to the network at home, school or work, and then any computer, interactive whiteboard etc connected to the network (or even the Internet) can watch live pictures from your nest box camera or wildlife camera. With this device, you can even watch your family of birds on your mobile phone from the other side of the world.
July 2008: Bird Table Camera Launched. Enjoy Birds More launches another innovative new product - the Bird Table Camera. This combines a high resolution wireless wildlife camera designed to work with outside light levels and the sometimes inclement British weather, with an innovative bracket designed to fit onto the metal or wooden post of a bird table and offset the camera to get good photographs all day, every day of the year. Use it to watch birds feeding on the platform of a bird table, or as a bird feeder camera. Launched at the affordable price of £119.99 including VAT.
May 2008: Major Reductions in our Rechargeable Battery Prices. We think rechargeable batteries are the way forward as they are better for the environment and cheaper to use. That is why we redesigned most of our camera bird boxes and wildlife cameras to use them. However, the cost of the batteries has until now been much higher than throw-away alkaline batteries. Through our new technological partnership we have been able to offer a much improved storage capacity and dramatically reduce the prices on our Rechargeable High Capacity Battery Sets (A40). The Solar Nesting Package (P82) includes a set of rechargeable batteries, and has also come down in price to £379.99.
June 2006: Did you see us at BBC Gardeners' World Live 2006? We were on stand 6103 in Hall 6 at BBC Gardeners' World Live at the NEC Birmingham from June 14th to 18th. We were pleased to meet some "old" customers, made lots of new friends and customers and had our range of wireless camera bird boxes and wildlife cameras on display.
October 2005: Enjoy Birds More exhibited at B2B Midlands at the New Ricoh Arena in Coventry on 18 and 19 October 2005 Enjoy Birds More took a stand at the prestigious "B2B Midlands" Exhibition, one of the first to be held at the brand new Ricoh Arena in Coventry. On stand 204 we had our wireless camera nest box range on show, including a specially modified transparent camera nest box to display the technology, with an animated model of a blue tit to show a bit of movement. The show was by all accounts a great success and we were pleased to meet some of our existing customers and make some new ones.
September 2005: Innovation-Direct Publish Case Study on Enjoy Birds More September 2005. Innovation-Direct, the collaborative project between the Universities of Wolverhampton and Warwick which brings design expertise to new products, has published a case study on its work with Enjoy Birds More Limited. This work concentrated on the design and manufacturing aspects of the Garden Nest Pod, one of our range of wireless camera bird box products.
September 2005: Warwick Manufacturing Group features its work with Enjoy Birds More in its latest news September 2005 Warwick Manufacturing Group, the world leading consultancy and research organisation in the manufacturing and automotive industries, features on its web site the work it did with Enjoy Birds More and its bird box cameras. In its own words: "Some people like to watch humans 24/7 on Channel Four's Big Brother - but there are many who would prefer to watch the more gentle behaviour of garden birds - now a Coventry company "Enjoy Birds More Limited" has developed the technology to do just that. . . . . ".
August 2005: Garden News features the Town Garden Nesting Kit 17 August 2005 Garden News, the important magazine for gardeners, featured a piece highlighting the extensive capabilities of the Town Garden Nesting package, one of Enjoy Birds More's range of innovative Nest Box Cameras.
August 2005: New Electronics tells readers about Enjoy Birds More's product 9 August 2005 A small piece about Enjoy Birds More's revolutionary product appeared in this prestigious magazine on 9 August 2005. It talked about the colour and infra red imaging capability and the battery saving and video processing technology within their unassuming wireless nest box cameras.
August 2005: Coventry Evening Telegraph Article on Enjoy Birds More 12 August 2005 Enjoy Birds More featured in an article in the Paper's City News. This talked about the Big Brother style observation developed by the company, and customers as far afield as Norway and the United States. Product features of the wireless bird box cameras including battery saving electronics and clever video processing were also covered.
August 2005: The Engineer and the Box August 2005. "The Engineer", and "the Engineer Online" both featured pieces on Enjoy Birds More's innovative camera bird boxes and their work with the University of Warwick.
July 2005: Cutting it - Mustard showcases Enjoy Birds More. Mustard, the agency providing dynamic support for high growth business start-ups, shows how it worked with Enjoy Birds More to help create a business from the idea for an innovative and technically superior camera nest box. Doug Barrons of Mustard says: "Enjoy Birds More has all the ingredients of a successful company, having been able to combine significant technological know-how with a unique product".
May 2005: Staffordshire University showcases its electronics design collaboration with Enjoy Birds More. Staffordshire University has talked about its association with Enjoy Birds More over the electronics design of the camera nest boxes in this article in "News", the monthly publication which aims to communicate the University's strengths. Enjoy Birds More developed the electronics control system including battery saving and lighting systems in collaboration with the Electronics Design Centre of the University.
May 2005: Article in "Pet Focus". The Summer Edition of Pet Focus included an article about Enjoy Birds More's market leading camera bird boxes entitled "Big Brother for birds" in its Pet News Section.
May 2005: Selected by Oxford University for Research into Nesting Behaviour. The prestigious Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at Oxford University has become one of the first customers of Enjoy Birds More Limited. Kris Jones, a research student who is investigating aspects of behaviour inside Starling nests has selected our nest box cameras to allow him to record and analyse nest activities.
May 2005: Enjoy Birds More Exhibits at Prestigious Innovation Event in Coventry 12 May 2005. Enjoy Birds More Limited with their partners FoneApps (who developed the Enjoy Birds More by PC software) and Coventry Information Technologies (who designed and built this web site) were the recipients of an Innovation Networks Award from Advantage West Midlands. They were invited to exhibit their bird box cameras at a prestigious awards ceremony in Coventry on 12 May, along with other successful projects.
April 2005: Solihull Times and Solihull and Warwickshire Guardian April 2005. Enjoy Birds More, and its collaboration with Mustard, the agency promoting new businesses start ups, were featured in the Solihull Times and Solihull and Warwickshire Guardian with pieces covering the launch of Enjoy Birds More and its wireless bird box cameras.
March 2005: Enjoy Birds More Featured on BBC TV News. Enjoy Birds More was featured on Midlands Today on Easter Monday (28 March 2005). Liz Silver interviewed Peter Bubb of Enjoy Birds More, and showed footage of him (in the snow!) putting up camera nest boxes and using a laptop computer to view inside the box.
February 2005: Twitching via a wireless web cam 22 February 2005 The Birmingham Post again featured Enjoy Birds More and their innovative products. This time there was a full page within the Post's prestigious Business Section. This covered some of the development project which resulted in the launch of the wireless camera nest box, the battery life and the innovative lighting system. It also covered the collaboration with Mustard, the start up business support agency.
December 2004: The Nest Box Company scoops BBC Wildlife Magazine Awards. Congratulations to our friends, The Nest Box Company (who make all our wooden nest boxes for us), who were honoured in this year's BBC Wildlife Magazine's review of bird boxes. Not only did Nest Box Company win the coveted "Best Buy" award for their Multi Bird Box, but they also won the "4 Star" award for their Standard Box. Well done. These awards acknowledge the Nest Box Company's position as the UK's leading producer of nest boxes.
December 2004: BIZ TV launches Video on Product Innovation at Enjoy Birds More. Biz-TV, the business TV channel for the Midlands, run as part of Aston Media's Business and Learning Connections Project, has published a short video charting the story behind the development of Enjoy Birds More's innovative new wireless nest box camera products. This includes interviews with collaborators Staffordshire University and the University of Warwick who collaborated on the research and design work involved in the world's only practical wireless nest box camera , and comments from Peter Bubb, the founder of Enjoy Birds More. This was produced as part of a series on important product development and innovations coming out of collaborations between business and universities, and is further acknowledgement of the advances in bird box camera technology built into Enjoy Birds More's new products. If you want to play the video or find out more, just visit www.biz-tv.net and search for "birds".
November 2004: Enjoy Birds More short listed for leading Innovation Awards 18 November 2004 We are delighted to announce that Enjoy Birds More Ltd was selected as a Finalist in the prestigious Development in Innovation category of the Lord Stafford Awards, and following a presentation to the judges in late September was presented with its certificate at the awards night on 17th November. The Lord Stafford Awards exist to recognise and encourage the development of collaborative relationships between West Midlands Businesses and Universities, and are sponsored by leading companies such as BT and JCB, so we are naturally excited and delighted to be recognised in this way. Managing Director Peter Bubb commented, "I'm absolutely thrilled that as a new company, Enjoy Birds More has been recognised in this way. We have worked very closely with The University of Warwick and Staffordshire University who have helped us to bring a class leading camera bird box product to market. The product is bristling with innovations, all of which bring significant benefit to the customer and will I hope come to set the standard by which others will be judged".
August 2004: From visionaries to bird-brains. "Birmingham Post enterprise editor Martin Faint takes a look at this year's Lord Stafford Award nominations and is shocked by what he finds... In its review of nominations for the Lord Stafford Awards for Innovation and Collaboration between Universities and Business, the Birmingham Post picked out only 4 companies (including Cadbury Trebor Bassett) from over 30 contenders. Enjoy Birds More was one of them, with its camera nest box product just bristling with innovative features.