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Four of us were lucky to spend 45 minutes on an October morning with a Northern saw-whet owl along the high Cascade crest. Conifer trees behind it made a muted blue background. Soon after its photo was taken, the owl swooped down with frost flying off its head - like it was flying in stars...

Found on flickr

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

or the raspberry pi will pick them up

Seriously??? How does this work?

[–] anon6789 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I dont know if this is what they have, but BirdNET-Pi is the first thing that comes to mind.

Classify birds acoustically with BirdNET-Pi

Cornell also has it in app form if you want to play with it on a phone/tablet.

I haven't tried it at all, so I'm curious how well it works as well!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

WOW!! I had no idea this existed, I'm seriously impressed!

I have been looking At Raspberry Pi for a while, but it would be a bit of a slog for me to get my head round it all....BUT, one day I'm going to find an idiots guide and dip my toe in the water

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can set up a raspberry pi and microphone to listen for and identify birds in your yard. Here is a website that explains how to do it: https://becausebirds.com/fun-raspberry-pi-project-identify-backyard-birds-24-7/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is amazing, I'm bookmarking it for future reference, now I just need an idiots guide to Pi

What birds have you picked up on it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mostly the usual backyard songbirds: cardinals, blue jays, robins, chickadees, etc. (White-breasted nuthatches are very chatty!) but also Pileated Woodpeckers, which I haven’t seen yet, Cooper’s Hawks, a ton on warblers in the spring, and a Snow Goose, flying overhead I would guess. It’s fun to see what’s in or near your yard, but frustrating to never see them.

[–] anon6789 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s fun to see what’s in or near your yard, but frustrating to never see them.

Lol I feel this one! I was so glad I finally had 2 Flicker sightings over the last year after so many years of seeing them marked on the birdwatching map all around me, but never getting to see one myself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Flickers are really cool! I see them fairly regularly. In the summer they eat ants off the sidewalk!

[–] anon6789 3 points 10 months ago

I hope mine becomes a more regular guest!

[–] anon6789 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same, this looks like a fun project. The pictograms at the link of the data look very nice as well!

Good job on their logo too. Like the Firefox logo a bit, but a cardinal.

Would be fun to put a little radiation symbol or something on the outside of the box instead of the bird label! 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well, I just hopped on over to zlibrary and downloaded the idiots guide to Pi, it may take some time for me to get my head round it all though, but I'm going to give it a go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] anon6789 3 points 10 months ago

Awesome! Keep us posted if you build it. It'd be nice to see how to process building it and getting it working is for someone without prior experience, which is probably a lot of us. (me included!)