Date: 2/26/23 9:48 am From: <tgmiko...> <tgmiko...> Subject: Re: [LACoBirds] Error on my EBird wren report
Oh wow! David E, you just saved me a bunch of work on the laptop. Thanks for doing this! Now I wonder if when I heard the bird singing I was actually hearing the app in my own pocket and didn't know it. Now I know to watch out for this in the future.
Thomas Geza Miko Claremont, LA County 909.241.3300 "I'm on the fence! My bank account is unfortunately in another neighborhood."--CuppaJoe
On Sat, Feb 25, 2023, 2:07 PM David Ellsworth <davidells...> wrote:
> I used my flux capacitor, and the last 7.994 seconds of the 3rd recording > in your checklist <https://ebird.org/checklist/S129533131> is indeed a > perfect match with "song (eastern) #2_NY" in the Sibley app: > > https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/WIWR-Miko.png > https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/WIWR-Sibley.png > > Flip between these two images. Great Scott! It's a perfect match. > > David Ellsworth > San Pedro, CA > > At 2023-02-25 10:30, <tgmiko...> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > Yesterday when I was listening to my recordings I was pleasantly surprised > that I got a recording of the "Winzer Wren" singing. Well apparently what > may have happened (strong possibility) is that I accidentally turned on my > phone while live recording the bird and picked up the recording off the app > of a Winter Wren singing, instead of the actual bird singing. The bird did > sing while I was there but I may have accidentally recorded my own phone > (until Amazon finally delivers the flux capacitors for my DeLorean I'm > never going to find out). The other two recordings of the bird calling are > definitely live recordings of only the bird and nothing coming off my > phone. I checked on this topic last night with a couple of people who put > the work into helping me figure this out. Worst comes to worst I may go > back tomorrow or Monday and try to get more recordings of the bird with my > shotgun microphone and make sure that the same mistake doesn't happen > again. I've never actually done this before. I have upon occasion picked up > a recording off my phone knowing that I was playing it and then edited that > out but I've never accidentally recorded my phone not knowing that that's > what was on my recording. > > Thomas Geza Miko > Claremont, LA County > 909.241.3300 > "With a sufficiently large sample size a correlation can at once be both > very significant and too small worth discussing."--Daniel Kahneman > > >
