Birders' Nest

Elgarian Redux · October 05, 2025, 07:41:04 PM

Quote from: JBS on October 05, 2025, 07:37:57 PMSee my edit.

Got it! (See above.) Thanks!

owlice · October 05, 2025, 09:12:12 PM

Quote from: JBS on October 05, 2025, 06:01:48 PMI 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 · October 06, 2025, 12:48:47 AM

Quote from: owlice on October 05, 2025, 09:12:12 PMI 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 · October 06, 2025, 04:58:38 AM

A+, Elgarian!

Elgarian Redux · October 06, 2025, 05:02:03 AM

Quote from: owlice on October 06, 2025, 04:58:38 AMA+, Elgarian!

Basking in the glory ....

owlice · October 06, 2025, 05:12:31 AM

As well you should, dear Elgarian!

owlice · October 06, 2025, 05:33:20 AM

Red-cheeked Cordonbleu (Kenya)

JBS · October 06, 2025, 08:29:03 AM

Quote from: owlice on October 06, 2025, 05:33:20 AM
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 · October 06, 2025, 08:53:23 AM

Quote from: owlice on October 06, 2025, 05:12:31 AMAs well you should, dear Elgarian!

I have a good teacher, y'know!

Elgarian Redux · October 06, 2025, 08:58:59 AM

Quote from: owlice on October 06, 2025, 05:33:20 AM
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 · October 06, 2025, 09:03:01 AM

Quote from: JBS on October 06, 2025, 08:29:03 AMThese 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 · October 06, 2025, 10:06:02 PM

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

Bigfruit Scaly Polypody

Elgarian Redux · October 07, 2025, 12:22:28 AM

Quote from: owlice on October 06, 2025, 10:06:02 PMWhat 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 Polypody, 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 Polypody, 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 Polypodies springing up, until they form a large part of the population of the British Isles, and set up their own government - a Bigfruit Scaly Polypody 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 · October 07, 2025, 06:50:44 AM

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)

Elgarian Redux · October 07, 2025, 11:12:08 AM

Quote from: owlice on October 07, 2025, 06:50:44 AMMy 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!!

I've corrected the tybos in my brevious bost (yes, it definitely imbroves it), put now there seems to pe another broplem.

QuoteThere is a Carolina Wren in my windowsill at the moment, making little wren noises and being adorable. I dare not move!

You have successfully reduced me to a whisper.

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

OK ... with you so far. ...

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

Oh what a smashing bird to have on your windowsill.

owlice · October 07, 2025, 11:22:49 AM

Quote from: Elgarian Redux on October 07, 2025, 11:12:08 AMI've corrected the tybos in my brevious bost (yes, it definitely imbroves it), put now there seems to pe another broplem.

hahahahahahhahaha!!!! So habby I was/am not in a buplic blace reading this!

owlice · October 07, 2025, 02:32:28 PM

I think this means I'm ub for free coffee and puns, too...

I meant to post this bird yesterday, but got sidetracked by the Cordonbleu.

Hartlaub's Turaco (Kenya)

A gorgeous photo (much better!!) of this beautiful bird is available here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121240404

Am going through last year's pics...

owlice · October 07, 2025, 10:30:48 PM

White-eyed Slaty Flycatchers (Kenya)

hopefullytrusting · October 07, 2025, 10:45:49 PM

I think this is my favorite bird photo: Grey Heron in the Rain (taken in Jakarta)

Cite: https://www.reddit.com/r/wildlifephotography/comments/188vwam/grey_heron_in_the_rain/

Elgarian Redux · October 07, 2025, 11:49:56 PM

Quote from: owlice on October 07, 2025, 02:32:28 PMI think this means I'm ub for free coffee and puns, too...

Just ub myself this morning, apout to get my cub of coffee, and found this miniature gem. My turn to laugh aloud! I am thinking hungrily now of iced puns; cream puns; and toasted pread with lashings of putter. [And now I am in near hysterics at the thought of beanut putter.]

Do you have any bictures of peautiful benguins, Owlice?

No, no. This way lies madness. I don't even know why I find it so funny! Enough of this foolishness!! Coffee!!! And sanity!!