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I am astounded by people's ability to recognise, by sight and sound, birds, bravo! I spend at least a day a week surrounded by 'experts', (RSPB wardens etc) and am routinely mocked for my complete lack or recognition. Give me a Chiffchaff, a Grasshopper Warbler or a Pied Fly though and I'm your...

Not sure if I'm being whooshed here but their breeding range covers much of the UK, not much of SE England but widely elsewhere.

I've been doing a lot of work on Bioacoustics with the RSPB, BTO etc over the last year or so and while I'm not an expert, I've processed in excess of 10,000,000 sound files so have picked up a lot along the way. The analysis we do uses the same models (Birdnet/E-Bird) that Merlin does but we're...

Ahh, don't be, there's loads we don't see up here! PFs are a target species at our local reserve and we have about 30 nesting this season but, for instance, Green woodpeckers are largely absent and you have them regularly, probably.

We've built some ponds and fenced off some future meadow/woodland around them and down to Afon Dyfi - We've good some nice visitors this year, daily Heron, Pied Flycatchers nesting, Dippers, various warblers. It's nice to watch. Got this nice pic of a Gray Wagtail by a pond on Sunday:-

Quite the spectacle! Very likely to have been a Buzzard - Just part of the circle of life, Buzzards are very common these days....

You need to be a little sceptical of taking these identifications as gospel - We're using the underlying AI on a little project in Mid/North Wales where, so far (over the last few months), we're analysed about 300,000 recordings using this software and the results can be a little off. The...