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Albatrossity

Lots of Orchard Orioles arrived in the last few days here. This one is a male in his second year on the planet.

#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #photography #wildlife #nature #FlyoverCountry

Mostly bright yellow bird with darker wings, white wing bars, and a black face and throat, perched on a bare branch
14 May 2023 at 18:04 | Open on lor.sh
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Myphatself

@Albatrossity very nice. I jist setup a birdnet server. This is what it identified today.
14 May 2023 at 18:13 | Open on mstdn.social
Albatrossity

@Myphatself You must be somewhere in the western US; I wish we had magpies here!

Back-deck coffee time with Merlin listening this morning was productive here in NE Kansas. Merlin might be problematic sometimes, but these are all birds that I have also visually IDed in the yard, most of them this year.

Northern Cardinal. Carolina Wren, Orchard Oriole, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Least Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, American Crow, Baltimore Oriole, Tufted Titmouse, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Swainson's Thrush, Black-capped Chickadee, American Robin, Summer Tanager, Cedar Waxwing, Blue Jay, Brown-headed Cowbird, and Ruby-throated Hummingbird.

@Myphatself You must be somewhere in the western US; I wish we had magpies here!

Back-deck coffee time with Merlin listening this morning was productive here in NE Kansas. Merlin might be problematic sometimes, but these are all birds that I have also visually IDed in the yard, most of them this year.

14 May 2023 at 18:54 | Open on lor.sh
Myphatself

@Albatrossity the magpies are definitely a love/hate kinda relationship. They get pretty pushy with the cats and cat food. I am in the western US. My birdnet is not perfect but it does give me more info than I had before. It identified my dog as a screech owl, close, and sometimes pics up rhe toads singing as other birds. That is a great list. I've only had mine setup a week or so and it has identified 49 birds. Probably 90% accuracy. It's cool to see what comes in mornings only.
14 May 2023 at 19:02 | Open on mstdn.social
Albatrossity

@Myphatself Outdoor cats are a love/hate relationship too :-) I'd side with the magpies on that one!

Yeah, the sound ID technology still has some glitches. Merlin IDed a cow as a Long-eared Owl for me once... But it does let me know how bad my bird calls are. I tried what I thought was a pretty respectable chickadee call, and it told me it had heard a Yellow-headed Blackbird. That was sorta insulting...

I sorta do wish that it would ID common non-bird sounds (bullfrog, squirrel, toad, cicada, etc) as well, but maybe that is coming in the next generation.

@Myphatself Outdoor cats are a love/hate relationship too :-) I'd side with the magpies on that one!

Yeah, the sound ID technology still has some glitches. Merlin IDed a cow as a Long-eared Owl for me once... But it does let me know how bad my bird calls are. I tried what I thought was a pretty respectable chickadee call, and it told me it had heard a Yellow-headed Blackbird. That was sorta insulting...

14 May 2023 at 19:28 | Open on lor.sh
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