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I got a new toy

Felis Leo said:
That is neat. Are you alerted when a bird alights on it?
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Yes.

It also records videos with sound. I never actually heard hummingbirds tweet before.

My model has a cheap subscription that also has AI identification. Not sure how accurate it is. It says this is an Anna's Hummingbird.
 
Mycroft said:
Yes.

It also records videos with sound. I never actually heard hummingbirds tweet before.

My model has a cheap subscription that also has AI identification. Not sure how accurate it is. It says this is an Anna's Hummingbird.
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That is really cool. I am no birdwatcher by vocation, but I just looked it up and it does look like an Anna's Hummingbird if Google Images are anything to go by. Probably a female since it looks like the males are the ones with that brilliant purple head plumage around the beak and eyes, and the females have the more muted green plumage.
 
Mycroft said:
Yes.

It also records videos with sound. I never actually heard hummingbirds tweet before.

My model has a cheap subscription that also has AI identification. Not sure how accurate it is. It says this is an Anna's Hummingbird.
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I get the 'Merlin' app free here. It identifies over 10,000 bird species songs simply by pointing an I phone in roughly the right direction. It then displays a pi of the bird and some further info. Magic! A must-have for anyone even little interested in birds.
 
Mycroft, do you have confidence the bird upper-ranks won't send their technicians in to turn that camera around and start filming/recording you? Maybe copy the technology (China Birds) and then plant something like that in your kitchen window.

On the other hand, that is pretty neat looking.

But that bird in that image you posted sure looks like it recognizes something is a little off. Thus my question above. Looks like a smart bird. And that beak almost looks dangerous.
 
medi said:
Mycroft, do you have confidence the bird upper-ranks won't send their technicians in to turn that camera around and start filming/recording you? Maybe copy the technology (China Birds) and then plant something like that in your kitchen window.

On the other hand, that is pretty neat looking.

But that bird in that image you posted sure looks like it recognizes something is a little off. Thus my question above. Looks like a smart bird. And that beak almost looks dangerous.
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I'm not worried. After all, that bird is the size of my thumb.

I put the feeder out yesterday morning and it took until late in the afternoon for the hummingbird to find it. That picture is from the first video I got. The bird was pretty skittish. It would stick it's beak in, drink, stop, look around, feed some more...over and over. Later, it calmed down, would fly up to the feeder and just chow down.

Here is the full video:

 
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Did it come with any recipes?
They taste great but fry up into practically nothing.

My brother has several feeders, I'll have to send your link to him.
 
Mycroft said:
This is the hummingbird feeder I bought, for those interested in it.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXJCJ6G
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"Ant and bee proof" - how in the heck can they do that? Especially ants? Maybe ants don't like that fancy coloring? Sure am curious about that claim on Amazon.

Now we need an ant camera watch system to prove that ad is true. Maybe that should be 'ant watch camera system'.
 
medi said:
"Ant and bee proof" - how in the heck can they do that? Especially ants? Maybe ants don't like that fancy coloring? Sure am curious about that claim on Amazon.

Now we need an ant camera watch system to prove that ad is true. Maybe that should be 'ant watch camera system'.
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Ants have a hard time getting past that black cup thing, but if they do, they run into the top of the feeder. You put water in the reservoir on the top.

Bees are prevented from getting to the liquid by the small size of the opening in the "flowers".
 
Mycroft said:
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Ants have a hard time getting past that black cup thing, but if they do, they run into the top of the feeder. You put water in the reservoir on the top.

Bees are prevented from getting to the liquid by the small size of the opening in the "flowers".
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Oh rats, I was just thinking about asking for blue prints for an ant watching camera.

But I see now. Thank you for the explanation. I'll cancel my idea about that ant watching camera. - - - Well, anyone having trouble with ants?

By the way, I wonder if humming birds might like munching on bees?
 
medi said:
Oh rats, I was just thinking about asking for blue prints for an ant watching camera.

But I see now. Thank you for the explanation. I'll cancel my idea about that ant watching camera. - - - Well, anyone having trouble with ants?

By the way, I wonder if humming birds might like munching on bees?
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I have a regular hummingbird feeder hanging in a tree. I had a problem with ants early on. They would come down the string and crawl inside the reservoir in the feeder and contaminate the food. The hummingbirds avoided the feeder. I put one of those cup things on it and that stopped them. I just have to empty out the cup from time to time.
 
Mycroft said:
I have a regular hummingbird feeder hanging in a tree. I had a problem with ants early on. They would come down the string and crawl inside the reservoir in the feeder and contaminate the food. The hummingbirds avoided the feeder. I put one of those cup things on it and that stopped them. I just have to empty out the cup from time to time.
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Well, you sure do have a pretty neat setup there, but you are going to need a 500GB storage device to store all that video you'll soon have. Probably high quality video, too. Maybe even more than 500GB.
 
medi said:
Well, you sure do have a pretty neat setup there, but you are going to need a 500GB storage device to store all that video you'll soon have. Probably high quality video, too. Maybe even more than 500GB.
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Not a problem.

My subscription comes with cloud storage and I can also download the best videos to my desktop computer. I have a total of six Terabytes of storage available.

And, those two videos I posted are about 5 MB's each. I won't run out of storage space for a long, long time.

Oh, and the videos are all 2K resolution. High quality, for sure.
 
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Felis Leo said:
That is really cool. I am no birdwatcher by vocation, but I just looked it up and it does look like an Anna's Hummingbird if Google Images are anything to go by. Probably a female since it looks like the males are the ones with that brilliant purple head plumage around the beak and eyes, and the females have the more muted green plumage.
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Yeah, looks like an Anna's. They're the year-round residents here where we live- we also get Rufous hummingbirds in season. The Rufous' are pretty aggressive and territorial about the feeder so they're pretty much all we get on our porch.
 
Mycroft said:
The app's AI says it's a female "Anna's Hummingbird". Pictures online confirm it.
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This post gave me a thought, but I didn't check something; still . . . if "Anna's Hummingbird" is the name given to a sort of special 'new' hummingbird and it was named after the human that first was able to prove a new style of hummingbird, can you have the same thing happen? Like "Mycroft's Hummingbird"? If so, then when the second special hummingbird is discovered by you can you name it "DebatePolitics Hummingbird"?
 
medi said:
This post gave me a thought, but I didn't check something; still . . . if "Anna's Hummingbird" is the name given to a sort of special 'new' hummingbird and it was named after the human that first was able to prove a new style of hummingbird, can you have the same thing happen? Like "Mycroft's Hummingbird"? If so, then when the second special hummingbird is discovered by you can you name it "DebatePolitics Hummingbird"?
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No.

btw, I think the app incorrectly identified that hummingbird. After further research, the Anna's Hummingbird only inhabits the west coast...from CA to WA. They don't get to Colorado at all. The app has also identified the same hummingbird as a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, which is more accurate. This hummingbird DOES reside in Colorado.
 
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