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I finally managed to see a Little Ringed Plover (Flussregenpfeifer, lit. “River Rain Whistler) from up close! They’re so tiny and adorable, I love them! :-)

Got really discouraged because I barely saw anything in the nature reserve today but he really brightened my day. Thank you Plover!

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I saw this adorable swift baby looking out of its nest today. Never seen one that wasn’t flying so this was a great sighting! :-)

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There is a pair of Red-Backed Shrikes in my neighbourhood that I haven't yet been able to see. I knew, however, where they typically hang out so I went there yesterday with my camera and tripod, set up the camera to point and potential perches and finally managed to see them and take a few short videos!

Their German name, Neuntöter, translates to "Nine Killer". It is said that they kill nine things before they actually eat one. This isn't actually too far fetched as Red-Backed Shrikes kill insects, small rodents or baby birds and hang them up on thorny bushes and other plants for later. The bush the female is perched on later on in the video is a blackberry bush which has thorns.

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Wagtails are always fun to watch! Here's a White Wagtail I saw on my morning walk hovering above the (honestly rather disgusting-looking) water with its mouth already full of insects.

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Went for a walk and managed to take a photo of a bird I hadn’t been able to photograph yet: A Spotted Flycatcher!

Its German name, Grauschnäpper, translates to “Grey Snatcher” — probably because it likes snatching flies and other insects!

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/555041

Managed to get a decent recording of the Common Firecrest I heard today and it was a lot of fun! I mostly do bird photography, but I want to start recording birds' songs and calls with something that has better audio quality than my iPhone.

Basically: Does anyone know of a good and not outlandishly (≤ €200) expensive audio recorder you can use? Preferably one that also has microphones that can deal with wind noise.

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Managed to get a decent recording of the Common Firecrest I heard today and it was a lot of fun! I mostly do bird photography, but I want to start recording birds' songs and calls with something that has better audio quality than my iPhone.

Basically: Does anyone know of a good and not outlandishly (≤ €200) expensive audio recorder you can use? Preferably one that also has microphones that can deal with wind noise.

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made !birding@lemmy.ml if you’re interested :-)

And you’re right about Merlin! I never fully trust it either, but in this case I just used it to confirm that the call I heard was, indeed, a firecrest. I don’t hear them too often so I wasn’t sure. I ended up seeing it as well.

But I’ve had Merlin misidentify things before. It heard part of a Song Thrushes singing and thought it was an oystercatcher 😬

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/548613

I always take a walk around my office during lunch. Finally managed to see and also record a firecrest. Such a tiny but cool-looking bird!

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I always take a walk around my office during lunch. Finally managed to see and also record a firecrest. Such a tiny but cool-looking bird!

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

That's one of the bugs.

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https://beehaw.org/post/545914

Seeing a glowing (b)orb in the trees is always a delight! So here's a male Eurasian Bullfinch (Gimpel / Dompfaff in Germany) after just having preened, his feathers still slightly fluffed up.

He was sitting in a tree really far away, but spotting him was simple — so colourful! Saw him on the weekend in North-Western Germany.

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Seeing a glowing (b)orb in the trees is always a delight! So here's a male Eurasian Bullfinch (Gimpel / Dompfaff in Germany) after just having preened, his feathers still slightly fluffed up.

He was sitting in a tree really far away, but spotting him was simple — so colourful! Saw him on the weekend in North-Western Germany.

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This frequently happens to me - I open the website and I am briefly logged in as another user as can be seen at the top right corner. It takes about a second and then I'm logged in as myself again. Managed to take a quick screenshot before it changed back.

The website theme is also changed from what I have it set to.

I find it a bit concerning how frequently this happens. Anyone have any idea as to why this happens?

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

salvaging gear will give you mats you’ll really want later in the game. You’ll probably have enough gold and can skip selling

I've been salvaging everything that I don't need and have been wondering - what does that even do? What do I do with the stuff I get from salvaging? Wouldn't it be better to just sell everything?

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I‘m quite the Diablo noob so I’ve been playing WT1 and am currently at level 17. It’s been quite easy though so I might switch to WT2 and see how that goes for me.

I’m playing a necromancer and I’m not really sure about build. Mostly using the Blood Surge, Blood Lance, Explode corpse and a few others whose name I’ve forgotten. Working out well for me so far!

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

And I still know tonnes of people, especially at my workplace, that drive SUVs with "Fuck you Greta" stickers and that complain about everything and anything that is even remotely related to climate change.

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Absolutely! Currently running Diablo 4 on the SteamDeck using Proton Experimental. Runs perfectly on medium-high settings at 45-50 fps. It's insane how far we've come. When I first started using Linux over ten years ago, running Windows games was nigh-impossible. And Valve finally released their Steam client for Linux, the selection of games was ... very limited.

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Frühling und Herbst stehen für mich auf einem Niveau, beide gleich gut. Ich finde einfach das Laub im Herbst schöner. Vom Wetter her sind beide aber gut.

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

For that to happen, I believe that interacting with people from other instances and moving your community and account from one instance to another have to become possible / easier.

At present, people flock to the instances with most users as those often have more local content (local content is generally easier to find than federated content) and they often have a smaller risk of shutting down. If I create a community on a smaller instance, the chance of it being found and interacted with are also much smaller than if it had been created on a bigger instance (because of, as I said, local content being user to find).

Sure, I can create an account on myfirstlemmyinstance.com (example URL, not an actual instance) with 10 users, but if my instance decides to shut down, my community of, say, 500 users will now have to move somewhere else and all old content will be deleted.

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Ideally, I think no one instance should have a million users to begin with.

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Best of luck to you! :-) Hope it works out well.

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Ich vermisse den Sommer nie. Herbst ist eh am besten.

[-] mjohanning@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I run a PeerTube instance and the amount of people that try following my instance with exactly THAT type of content is... astonishing. It just seems like no PeerTube instance is properly moderated.

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