<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I've also experienced Merlin misses, but what do folk suppose was the purported Chestnut-sided Warbler in this case?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Kevin Lucas</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Yakima County, WA</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">Qui tacet consentire</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> videtur</span></font></b></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 6:47 AM Louise Rutter <<a href="mailto:louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org">louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Louise Rutter</div><div>Kirkland<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 6:27 AM Carl Haynie <<a href="mailto:hayncarl@gmail.com" target="_blank">hayncarl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:1rem;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">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).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:1rem;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">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.</div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:1rem;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:1rem;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">Carl Haynie</div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:1rem;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">Sammamish</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:37 PM PENNY & DAVID KOYAMA <<a href="mailto:plkoyama@comcast.net" target="_blank">plkoyama@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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