This $46 telescope fits in your pocket for any outdoor adventure

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using a neural net to identify birds from their sounds.to lists of everything detected.

shutting the doors and windows and bringing the cats in after a warm late May day.as the Pis audio port doesnt support a microphoneAll you need is a recent Raspberry Pi running a 64-bit version of the Bullseye release of Raspberry Pi OS.

Its a powerful tool for seeing what might be around when all you can hear is a song somewhere in the trees.so it was already in a ArgonOne SSD case with a 240GB SSD.

A search on Amazon showed a USB-based lapel microphone rig that looked promising.

although that does limit what it can identify to about 700 mainly North American species.to lists of everything detected.

My current setup also used Raspberry Pi OSs ALSA tools to increase microphone gain by 25dB.with blackbirds and dunnocks nesting in the shrubs and occasional woodpeckers flitting down the railway lines from the wilder commons and the expanses of the Royal Parks to the west.

with models that have been trained by bird watchers and ornithologists all over the world.Image: Simon BissonCould there be another way to spot them? A friend had pointed me at an iOS app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.