Installed a new bird detector in the garden. Can confirm: There are birds.
Strong recommend for birdnet-go and the associated esp32 remote microphone. Way better than the old pi-based mess.
@jonty I never considered that this would be a thing that exists, but now you've mentioned it I'm like "obviously this exists and works quite well"
@jonty essentially the perfect use-case for classifier models
@gsuberland There's also a bat version! They're a lovely thing to have set up, you get to see when birds arrive on migration.
@gsuberland @jonty I get some funny false positive eg from rain drops and cicadas. Certainly some very weird birds out there that make the corresponding sounds and In can hardly blame the model 😅
@oseiler @gsuberland Mine has been certain that ambulances are birds for several years
@jonty does the bat one use an ultrasonic mic?
@gsuberland Yep, but it turns out most decent mems mics will do these days and there are some nice projects that bolt a USB interface to them