Birders' Nest

[Elgarian Redux]

See my edit.

Got it! (See above.) Thanks!

[owlice]

I tried Google Lens.
Thus answered the Oracle.

So if you didn't take this in Africa, you've demonstrated the complete futility of AI.
If you did take it in Africa, you obviously know a Prinia when you see it.

I did take it in Africa, and wow, yeah, Red-fronted Prinia it may be! The range is right, and there are other observations (not many, but some) of Red-fronted Prinias where I saw my bird. iNat didn't give Red-fronted Prinia as a possibility in iNat because its Computer Vision Model doesn't include that bird (yet); not enough observations yet for it to be included.

Here is my bird again:


And here is someone else's observation of a Red-fronted Prinia:

Credit: Tom Field, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266042427

Are we all convinced?

Thank you, thank you very much, JBS!!

[Elgarian Redux]

I did take it in Africa, and wow, yeah, Red-fronted Prinia it may be! The range is right, and there are other observations (not many, but some) of Red-fronted Prinias where I saw my bird. iNat didn't give Red-fronted Prinia as a possibility in iNat because its Computer Vision Model doesn't include that bird (yet); not enough observations yet for it to be included.

Here is my bird again:


And here is someone else's observation of a Red-fronted Prinia:

Credit: Tom Field, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266042427

Are we all convinced?

Thank you, thank you very much, JBS!!

Just looking in ignorance (but keen to try out the words I have been taught), those photos look like the same bird appearing first as a bi-i-i-i-irb; and then as a borb.
Is that sort of right?

[owlice]

A+, Elgarian!

[Elgarian Redux]

A+, Elgarian!

Basking in the glory ....

[owlice]

As well you should, dear Elgarian!

[owlice]

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (Kenya)

[JBS]

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (Kenya)

On my screen it looks more like Cordonturquoise.

And more purple cheeked than red cheeked.

These bird namers need to get another color spectrum chart from Sherwin-Williams.*

*Do they have that in the UK?-- housepaints and supplies for housepainting.

[Elgarian Redux]

As well you should, dear Elgarian!

I have a good teacher, y'know!

[Elgarian Redux]

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (Kenya)

Astounding! It doesn't look real, does it? As if it were some lifelike cuddly toy - The Ultimate Red-Cheeked Cordonbleu Glove Puppet.

[Are you now where I think you might be because you said you were going there?]

[Elgarian Redux]

These bird namers need to get another color spectrum chart from Sherwin-Williams.*

*Do they have that in the UK?-- housepaints and supplies for housepainting.

I don't know, I'm afraid. I haven't encountered the name, but that proves nothing.

[owlice]

What a plant! What a name which is why I'm posting it!


Bigfruit Scaly Polypody

[Elgarian Redux]

What a plant! What a name which is why I'm posting it!


Bigfruit Scaly Polypody

Oh wow! I want one for our garden! And then we shall have Garden Parties, inviting the neighbours to come and see our Bigfruit Scaly Polybody, and they will each come and say "Oh wow! I want one for our garden! And then we shall have Garden Parties, inviting the neighbours to come and see our Bigfruit Scaly Polybody, and they will each come and say 'Oh wow! I want one for our garden! etc etc ....'"

And so throughout the land there will be a host of Bigfruit Scaly Polybodies springing up, until they form a large part of the population of the British Isles, and set up their own government - a Bigfruit Scaly Polybody Parliament, with a flag of brown dots against a green background - and they will be kind and wise and everyone will live happily ever after, and there will be free coffee and buns for anyone who wants them.

But I guess it's just a dream.

[owlice]

My dear Elgarian, you have a typo! It's Polypody, which somehow makes it better, no? I'm definitely up for free coffee and buns, so count me in, woo-hoo!!
There is a Carolina Wren in my windowsill at the moment, making little wren noises and being adorable. I dare not move!


Not a Carolina Wren, but a Rufous Chatterer (Kenya)


Not a Rufous Chatterer, but a Carolina Wren (Maryland)