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Recent content by LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

  1. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Western Scotland birding

    Repeated last spring's visit to west Lomondside yesterday where I was delighted to find the Cuckoo pair in the same trees as before. I also counted at least three separate Tree Pipits and a Whinchat plus supporting appearences by tons of Skylarks, Meadow Pipits and Stonechats. A Jay flew past me...
  2. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Mediterranean Gull? Frampton Marsh

    That's what cameras are for.
  3. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Merlin Birdsong App.

    Sound ID doesn't use the data packs, it's a separate neural network. It uses your device location services so you are at the mercy of the device until they program it to cache the last good location (a pretty obvious programming technique).
  4. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Merlin Birdsong App.

    If it was me I'd ignore them although Song Sparrow is a rare vagrant to the UK. After a while you will get used to checking the location display when an odd ID comes up. Bear in mind that most IDs work regardless in my experience.
  5. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Merlin Birdsong App.

    Location is part of the ID process so typically if the app is showing your accurate location the IDs are plausible. If the screen says 'Location unknown' at the top any claim worldwide can show up. This happens to me a lot on a fluctuating basis.
  6. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Trossachs

    I think you are just outside Clyde region which goes to Drymen and west to the Lomond shore, here it is unknown and BirdTrack doesn't seem to have it in Upper Forth either (except very rarely in September). Please if you haven't already, submit to BirdTrack so the county recorder can get it in...
  7. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Did Merlin Bird ID really hear these in my garden?

    I have never had a foreign species alert whilst my correct location is showing. When it 'loses' it (throws it away) I can get anything even tanagers. It can come and go constantly.
  8. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Merlin Kenya database

    Have you tried birdNET which has way more global coverage (over 6k species)? Merlin don't seem to have tackled Africa yet and their global total is ~1k.
  9. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Songs that mention species of bird

    Tá Mo Chleamhnas Déanta (My Match It Is Made) Trad. Irish song covered by Van Morrison and the Chieftains D'éirigh mé ar maidin dhá uair roimh an lá 'gus fuair mé litir ó mó mhile ghrá Chuala mé an smóilin 's an londubh á rá Gur ealiagh mo ghrá thar sáile I got up two hours before day And I...
  10. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Western Scotland birding

    That's a pretty good haul! There are lapwings on the farmland north of Glasgow albeit low numbers at any one place this year so far - saw one from the train between Lenzie and Croy the other day. The biggest numbers I tend to see are at Newshot Island in winter.
  11. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Unknown call, Ochil Hills, Scotland

    Frequency is too low ~1.75KHz too
  12. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Hello - Glasgow

    Weegie thread is here: https://www.birdforum.net/threads/western-scotland-birding.165338/
  13. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Western Scotland birding

    I went to the other end of Clyde region and did a walk from Croy to the canal and upper Kelvin. Got two year ticks in Whitethroat and Sedge Warbler which interestingly were site ticks too, plus Sand Martins and Swallows over the canal. No solid Grasshopper Warblers for me yet this year but a...
  14. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    Seen the first Swallow 2024

    Yes I've seen them at a couple of farms north of Glasgow.
  15. LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese

    24/7 Raspberry Pi/birdNET monitoring

    Same story here on Goldcrest (we don't get Firecrest up here) and I've seen them plus the sonogram is quite clear. Garden Warblers personally I need more reassuring, I heard an unfamiliar song in the local park the other day but I think it was what they call the 'long song' of a Blackcap. In the...
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