Brilliant! Great bit of window cleaning
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Marsh Harrier in torrential rain 
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Interesting but is the AI killing the fun?
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I’d say it’s not for Real birders/twitchers.
The ID side of things looks great for Casuals like me who are too old and fucked to learn hundreds of birds. The ability to capture images and video - that’s really interesting, and actually seems a logical extension of capability - again for casuals who don’t want to lug cameras around.
Where I’m a whole lot less sure is image processing. Image stabilisation, yep, that’s a good thing IMO - but once you start enhancing images… What I’ve seen with cameras is frankly bollocks, left in ‘auto’ modes I’ve seen images that quite clearly are very significant ‘edits’ - and like a lot early 2020s AI, they are wholly unconvincing. 10 years from now, when the tech is mature, I’ve no doubt it’ll work well.
The biggest fun-vampire is the hilarious price of course…
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I can’t see them appealing to any serious birder.
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Same thing as carp anglers sending out underwater cameras.
Watching this little thing outside with its head on a permanent swivel.
It’s about 5m away outside the window and remained there long enough to grab my bins to have a good gleg.
Impossible to photo well with full zoom on my phone.
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Going to flaunt my vast birding knowledge now - it’s an owl 
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A short eared one by the looks - I have seen them at Otmoor often but never one parked.
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Tawny, surely?
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We were walking through Totnes on Saturday morning so of course met someone carrying an owl. This one in fact.
What this picture doesn’t really show is the size of it, he was huge.
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Hummingbirds are incredible. They’re so tiny and so fast that most of the time they’re mistaken for insects. Mostly see Ruby Throated in my area, they are stunningly beautiful
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Checking my shots after yesterdays ‘owl shoot’ I found this one which I at the time thought was a Corvid harassing the owl but actually looks like a Sparrowhawk; never a dull moment in nature.
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Still waiting for the redwings to turn up here, they generally make an appearance just in time for the Big Birdwatch to elevate our count above the mundanity of some sparrows and a few pigeons.
Not my pic - credit someone called Paula Freeman - but apparently Suffolk has a resident Kookaburra, not a recent escapee, as he (or she for all I know…) enters their ninth year of freedom after escaping from a private collection in 2015.
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Been reported for yonks, I’m just pleased it’s survived for so long, pretty hardy birds.
I know it’s been a bit wet lately, but this…?!
And I do wish the garden bird survey was underway…
Between the busy road it’s had to cross and our fuckwit dogs I’m not sure this one’s life-expectancy is any too great…
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More Short Eared Owls today
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