ha, now imagine some hacker changing all the Flock firmware nationwide to do bird identification too
would have been a great Mr. Robot episode
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
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#12ha, now imagine some hacker changing all the Flock firmware nationwide to do bird identification too would have been a great Mr. Robot episode
My cat wants to know who/where does one ask to request to have a specific bird located?
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#13In the non-fucked up timeline where Hilary won in 2016, Flock cameras is a nationwide network of automatic bird identification cameras to track bird population and migration.
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#14Heads up. I noticed the screenshot of your markdown card has an ASCII block that goes below the baseline. `U+2588` (Full block) tends to do that depending on a lot of things.
I made a change to the markdown card sometime ago that uses only `U+2581` through `U+ 2587` instead to avoid that issue.
It's under a collapsed block here:
https://www.kyleniewiada.org/blog/2025/05/backyard-bird-trac...
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#15110 detections over 7 days? Here in Sydney I would expect >110 detections per day!
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#17Love this project, I did something similar. The next step is building a custom frontend for it that’s exactly how your wife wants! https://alec.is/posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/
Has your observation record reached a steady state, or are you regularly seeing unusual species?
I’m at a very steady state now years into running a BirdNET-GO instance. Disclaimer: I’m a contributor to the project.
I’m a pretty unhinged sorta engineer, so I actually recently created a 24/7 weather TV channel that combines real-time bird alerts, weather radar, timelapses and a sky cam feed (just a UniFi camera mounted on my home’s roof PV).
https://www.youtube.com/live/sAC3o6KW2N0
Watchable from every TV in the house and shows the birds photo and name when it hears one. Whole thing is a single cursed FFMPEG command.
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#18Super cool, could be plugged into https://www.earthcam.com/ for global bird tracking. (i have a few https://www.birdweather.com/ devices strewn across North America and Europe because I am time poor and preferred a turnkey solution for those gifted to, but love the DIY efforts! no affiliation!)
How do you like the bird weather device? I’m interested in a more turnkey solution as well
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#19Love this project, I did something similar. The next step is building a custom frontend for it that’s exactly how your wife wants! https://alec.is/posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/
Here is mine: https://birdymusic.com/
I'm also working on a little project that is a walnut frame with a waveshare eink display and esp32 that polls for latest detection and display the picture.
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#20I am imagining a Gary Larson strip about a flock of birds who are so not fond of this.