[Tweeters] chestnut sided warbler
Kevin Lucas
vikingcove at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 06:49:52 PDT 2022
I've also experienced Merlin misses, but what do folk suppose was the
purported Chestnut-sided Warbler in this case?
Thanks,
Kevin Lucas
Yakima County, WA
*Qui tacet consentire videtur*
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 6:47 AM Louise Rutter <
louise.rutter at eelpi.gotdns.org> wrote:
> Merlin has told me several times about the chipping sparrows in my yard
> when I know it's hearing juncos. I wouldn't trust it on an out of area bird
> without a visual confirmation. It's impressive technology that it works as
> well as it does, but perfection would be too much to ask!
>
> Louise Rutter
> Kirkland
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 6:27 AM Carl Haynie <hayncarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Tweeters mailing list
>>> Tweeters at u.washington.edu
>>> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Tweeters mailing list
>>> Tweeters at u.washington.edu
>>> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Tweeters mailing list
>> Tweeters at u.washington.edu
>> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Tweeters mailing list
> Tweeters at u.washington.edu
> http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/pipermail/tweeters/attachments/20220915/f24fd2e1/attachment.html>
More information about the Tweeters
mailing list