About

Comfy Creatures is a small family business in South-East Queensland founded by electronics engineer and nature enthusiast, Wesley Nielsen. Wesley grew up on a Land for Wildlife property in the Western suburbs of Brisbane, South-East Queensland (SEQ), inspecting the home made nest boxes his father had built and installed. The discoveries of roosting sugar gliders and nesting wood ducks around the family home planted the seed from which Comfy Creatures would grow.

While walking under some nest boxes on a bush walk with friends, Wesley was inspired by the vision of creating public walking trails where anyone in the community could view the Australian fauna that lived within them. It was amazing that a purpose designed camera didn't already exist! Consequently Australia had a critical gap in its ability to study arboreal fauna and to design data driven solutions like nest boxes to enable the conservation of these animals.

In 2023, following the birth of our first daughter, Wesley moved into a part time position at IntelliDesign. An electronics design and manufacturing company where he'd worked for the past 12 years. At this time the Comfy Creatures Nest Box Monitor was developed. A purpose designed, standalone camera and environmental sensing device that could be installed in nest boxes or natural hollows and deployed anywhere! Such was the demand and interest in the proof of concept nest box monitor that Comfy Creatures, in collaboration with local bush care groups applied for five, and received funding for all five grants which delivered 60 pilot systems along public walking trails in SEQ.  

 

 

The nest box monitor enables the mission of Comfy Creatures: To help stop the extinction of Australian fauna. Finally we will have the data to best understand what it takes to support our magnificent fauna and facilitate a broader engagement of the community in their conservation!