[Tweeters] chestnut sided warbler

[Carl Haynie]

I ditto Penny’s experience. I’ve been using Merlin quite a bit since my
hearing is poor, but I always check it by simply replaying the recording,
sticking my phone’s speaker in my ear if necessary. Or by analyzing the
spectrograms/sonograms at home if it picked up something really odd - yet
possible (it’s tricky learning how to export the recordings off your phone
at first).

But, yes, even after you make sure the App is location-aware (you’ll know
since it will display your location when it’s recording), there is still
something in their algorithm that has it try to match sounds to birds not
documented for our continent and the “hits” are frequently European birds.
Quite strange. There might be a bird pack filter option I’m not aware of or
they need to fine tune their logic a bit.

Carl Haynie
Sammamish

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:37 PM PENNY & DAVID KOYAMA <plkoyama at comcast.net>
wrote:


> Merlin isn't always 100%.  I had it come up with a Yellowhammer in New

> Mexico a few months ago!

> Penny Koyama, Bothell

>

> On 09/14/2022 7:20 PM Mary Forrester <mgfrrstr at comcast.net> wrote:

>

>

> Today I was birding at Twin Ponds Park in Shoreline, using Merlin.  Merlin

> picked up a chestnut-sided warbler.  I neither saw nor heard it myself.

> Has anyone else encountered this bird?

>

> Mary Forrester

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