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Topic:

Birding

10 posts
Jan 2023 – Jul 2025

Recommendation: Microphone Setup for BirdNET-Pi

I run BirdNET-Pi at home and am excited to share that I have (finally) found a quality, ~$100, microphone setup for it! Listen to this recording: plenty of detail and clarity, and very little noise: American Crow 92 2025 07 31 birdnet 10 22 510:00/6.0241× This recording …

birdbath.tube

Because birds splashing around are cute, birdbath.tube now exists. Theoretically it's supposed to be possible to follow it via Mastodon, but I haven't gotten that to work yet. Please let me know if you have any ideas. Of course, you can subscribe via RSS. …

Someone please Photoshop a “Phantom of the Opera” mask onto this grackle for me

Know Your Birds: Red-Headed Woodpecker

The Red-Headed Woodpecker is, at least here in Michigan, a commonly misidentified bird.

My eBird Profile

I have finally learned how to use eBird properly and started using it more seriously!

↗ eBird: Chris Dzombak

Birds in Moab and Arches & Canyonlands National Parks

My partner Thu and I recently spent about a week in Moab, Utah and the national and state parks that surround it. This is a (probably incomplete) list of birds we identified during the trip.

My (Only) Two Complaints about the Canon 10x42 L IS WP Binoculars

I have previously written a glowing review of Canon's 10x42 L IS WP binoculars. And I stand by it! After using them heavily for a while now, though, I have two minor complaints. Stabilization LED Color When image stabilization is on, a green LED lights up on top …

Letter of Recommendation: Quality Binoculars

Over the past year I have tested a bunch of different binoculars; in this post I share recommendations for *good* binoculars at three different price points.

Some recent bird photos

Photo sequence of Bald Eagles hunting, from Nov. 2022

In November of last year, I was lucky to observe a lot of bald eagle activity around a lake near my home. (In total I observed 5 eagles: 3 adults and 2 juveniles.) Content warning: this post includes photos, from a distance, of a dead bird. One Saturday morning, I …