Coot and Moorhen are usually something like a branch tapping rather than the real bird.

I agree there is a long way to go but the common species are generally correct. You missed the Ptarmigan at the Friary and the Bitterns in Lochee :) The false positive rate is quite low with regard to calls but much higher when looking at species so anything surprising should always be checked.

BirdWeather

if you go to app.birdweather.com, navigate to the Eastfield node (near Dronley wood) you can access the recordings from the species list. I'd trust your ears more than the AI model

I'll see if I can get the recordings. I don't think they were particularly high confidence.

Picked up Willow warbler today on the acoustic monitors at JHI living field and at Fintry. Greater Whitethroats as well. Just a few calls and I haven't checked the recordings to validate but they aren't usual false positives.

I have a few audio detections in March, but all single calls.

Looks fantastic

Picked them up on my bird detector a few days ago. Same time as last year within a few days

Great to get a BirdNET-pi up at Fintry Library with such wonderful staff. Follow at biodiversidee.vercel.app

Last year the first recorded call on my network was 5th March, then two weeks before a few more. Then a full flock on 29th

This is what I have been waiting for. First chiffchaff recording of the year today.

Car on fire on A92 Nort between Kirkaldy and Glenrothes

This was February/March 2023/2024. Audio detection and only a tiny handful of calls.

Nice. The bird detector picked some up in my front garden (Lochee) a few years ago. Weren't back this year. Quite early for them?

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It's a nice walk up there too..

Listening to the Proms. Has anyone scored the prologue to JFK for pipes and drums? It would be an awesome lament.

Bizarre Dundonian fish tradition revived in time for New Year A workshop centred on reviving a Dundonian New Year tradition involving decorated fish has gone swimmingly, according to organisers. Singer Lynne Campbell

www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dund... may have something to do with it.. A kipper is a smoked herring.

Tawny Owl making a lot of noise on Balgay Hill tonight

@dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social Can you get physical signage up when busses are rerouted. 30 people waiting at West Marketgait for busses that aren't coming.

Not many of those flies around. (Ain't no flies on us)

Like this one that flowered last month in Dundee

If only peace campaigners were prescribed orgs...

Great to see the corpse flower in bloom at Dundee botanics. Last chance tomorrow as it only blooms for a short time.

A tableau of Lego minifigures in a scene showing graduation at Dundee University

Congratulations to all our students graduating this year at @dundeeuni.bsky.social School of Life Sciences. Well done and well deserved awards. Looking forwards to celebrating tomorrow at the Caird Hall and on Campus

Successfully deployed

Today starts with a field trip. Quite literally I am going to a field to test the solar birdnet detector. Then on to exam board jollities and other fun stuff.

A bit of hacking and the mothbox is now live. Testing tonight in the garden

Didn't see that one coming...

Lots of common whitethroat at the James Hutton Living Field. I have an audio detector there that can be monitored at biodiversidee.vercel.app or at app.birdweather.com