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2024-10-20 00:56:00

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@npub17nc…9dam is it the same basic model Merlin uses? I like that (the GitHub read me says) you can train it. There’s lots of locally common stuff like grey warblers and shining cuckoos that would be great to be able to continuously record/count by call.
I wish I knew where to start with hardware. Imagine hundreds of rugged little hardware boxes around the country counting animals by call, 24/7/365. Birds, lizards, frogs, insects (the local wētā are very raspy at night) and pests too…

2024-10-16 00:19:32

The Aussies have a great political term: “white-anting” - referring to termites and the way they undermine a building from within, hidden from view.
Feels like there are several Wellington City Councillors who are experts in the form, and have been for years. Really bothers me that the discourse is focusing on the mayor, who I feel is trying to be constructive and positive, rather than the more shadowy actors (often bitter failed mayoral candidates) in this whole farrago.

2024-10-06 18:25:15

The iconic “Fish species” poster found in fish and chip shops up and down the motu, but reimagined…
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/113/261/878/550/949/582/original/5171f6cd001814db.jpg

2024-09-27 22:28:15

the thinking chair: https://ebb.gath.nz/2024/09/28/the-thinking-chair.html

2024-07-18 07:04:19

R. just showed me pictures she took of a local kārearea (NZ Falcon) which was calling while flying high above Molesworth Street… then perching on the top of the crane that’s at the building site beside the cathedral. It had to take off when the crane started working again.
It was only a few hundred metres from the trees and steep slopes of Te Ahumairangi… but perhaps it hunts rock pigeons in town now?

2024-07-18 07:04:19

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They are still rarer than kiwi by some margin, and here is one in the middle of one of our larger cities.
Listen out, and look up!

2024-07-18 07:04:19

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They are still rarer than kiwi by some margin, and here is one in the middle of one of our larger cities.
Listen out, and look up!

2024-07-18 07:04:19

2024-05-31 06:56:29

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@npub1gpx…32t3 there’s an app for that: https://wandrer.earth/

2024-05-24 09:25:18

FiL has COVID again, for the third time and each time he’s caught it in hospital.
Wear a fucking mask, if not for you, then for people who have more chances of dying than you do.

2024-03-03 22:52:50

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@npub17nc…9dam eventually resulting in speciation possibly…?

2024-03-03 22:52:50

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@npub17nc…9dam eventually resulting in speciation possibly…?