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Stealing Your Riffs
Our Netvue high-tech bird feeder uses motion sensors and a cam to capture video clips. I grabbed a few still frames from the videos. Apparently, the post design is not entirely squirrel proof.

The feeder has AI technology that attempts to identify the birds from still frames of the video. It’s about 60% accurate.

Steller’s Jay
Magpie
Chickadee
AI identified as ?Northern Flicker?
Squirrel

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Video of Downy Woodpecker with some Nuthatches flying past….

 
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cool!

Where the heck are you that has that much snow on the ground already?!

I haven't even used a jacket or a sweater yet...granted we are at a low latitude.
 
We have a Cardinal pair that have been producing a few offspring each spring. They depend heavily on our feeder. This year, they had two males and two females make it to adulthood. We got to watch the male's colors deepen and spread more across their body and wings each week.

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I don't have tell you jrockbridge, how dangerous the bird feeder 'game' can be.
Grizz.
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We had a bird trigger our Ring camera a year or so ago. No AI technology to get the identification.
Here's a still shot. It looks like a hawk, no?
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Andrew Sak said:
I don't have tell you jrockbridge, how dangerous the bird feeder 'game' can be.
Grizz.
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We had a bird trigger our Ring camera a year or so ago. No AI technology to get the identification.
Here's a still shot. It looks like a hawk, no?
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The tail lacks the stripes hawks have. The triangular seed beak and the belly stripes point to a few finch species, but we'd need to see the head for an accurate ID.
 
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Tig said:
Downeys and other woodpeckers love suet blocks.

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I keep putting suet in that little ball. But, the raccoons chewed half of it off when the feeder was in the tree. The Magpies have been grabbing big chunks of suet and flying off. I’ll have to fix it. I thought the chickadees would like the suet. Yet, so far, they have ignored it.
 
shoeless said:
The also like to peck out the knots in the cedar siding of my house. :mad:

I think the suets actually help with that, giving them an easy food alternative to whatever is hiding behind my siding.
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I had to use a cheap D-ring to keep the squirrels from hauling off with the suet. You can see the cage is opened a little.

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Tig said:
The tail lacks the stripes hawks have. The triangular seed beak and the belly stripes point to a few finch species, but we'd need to see the head for an accurate ID.
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An easy mistake. A finch for a hawk.
On our fence.
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Our son took this in flight picture
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This was on our neighbors gazebo.
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Tig said:
A Cooper's Hawk. The grey back/wings and the extra long tail is what makes them stand out. They expertly eat smaller birds and empty bird's nests.
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We were in the hot tub, and one swooped and caught a rat on our hill.
 
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