[Tweeters] chestnut sided warbler

[Carl Haynie]

Definitely, visual confirmation is needed on any hit on chip notes or
contact calls. Lots of misses there. On Kevin’s question, it depends on
what it thought it heard with respect to the “chestnut-sided”. Did it pick
up a song or subsong segment? If it was just a contact call or chip, then I
bet there’s not much you’d be able to do with it even after analyzing the
sonagram. That’s been my experience.

Carl Haynie

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 6:50 AM Kevin Lucas <vikingcove at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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

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