ChirpyCharm camera angle adjustment?

I get why you’d want to avoid the mount, but I actually think tilting the camera itself is the wrong move here. I tried nudging mine down a few weeks after I got it because the first week of footage was all sky and treetops and not much else. What I found was that the camera sits in a fixed spot in the housing, so any “tilt” is really you just pushing against plastic that doesn’t want to move. I gave it a gentle nudge and it shifted slightly, and then the next morning the app kept dropping the live feed every couple of minutes. It turned out I’d barely disturbed the connection inside, not enough to kill it outright but enough to make it flaky for a day until I powered it off and back on.

What actually solved it for me was just raising the whole feeder a few inches on the pole so it looks slightly downward at the perch. Took five minutes, no disassembly, and the framing has been fine ever since. So I’d say skip the camera and adjust the height instead. The mount really is the easier thing to move, even if it feels like more hassle up front.

I’ve been watching this thread since I’m still deciding whether to buy one. The camera angle issue sounds like a small annoyance rather than a dealbreaker, but I’d rather know about it now than after it’s on my fence.

Mine points a little high too, but I actually like it that way now. It catches the birds coming in from above before they land, which makes for some fun clips. Adjusting it felt like more trouble than it was worth.

Mine sat level out of the box and I still ended up shimming the back of the bracket with a bit of rubber because the whole feeder leaned once the feed got low. Camera tilt itself never seemed meant to move, so I left it alone.

I tried nudging the camera housing on mine and it didn’t stick either, kept creeping back up after a day or two. What actually worked for me was going at the mount itself, but not the way you’d think. I left the bracket screwed to the post and just backed off the screw that holds the feeder to the bracket, tilted the whole unit down a notch, and cinched it back up. No disassembly, no extra parts. Took five minutes and it’s held its position for about three weeks now. The only thing is you lose a tiny bit of the feeder sitting level, so the seed doesn’t spread quite as evenly, but the birds don’t seem to care. If you’re trying to avoid touching the mount at all, I don’t think there’s a clean way to do it. The housing on mine just doesn’t have enough grip to stay put once you move it.