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Daily Bird Log

May 17, 2026 · 14 visits · 4 species

Window: 2026-05-17 00:00 PDT to 2026-05-17 23:59 PDT

Generated: 2026-06-10 10:00 PDT

Total clips: 25 · Unique species: 4

Breakdown: 0 rare · 0 notable · 14 common · 0 non-bird · · 11 empty

COMMON

bird — 2026-05-17 16:56:22 — An American Crow is perched on the edge of the fountain, drinking water.
American CrowNEW SPECIES5+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 16:56:22 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
An American Crow is perched on the edge of the fountain, drinking water.
Sex/age: adult
Behavior: drinking, perched
Field marks: glossy black plumage
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bird — 2026-05-17 16:30:32 — A male House Sparrow perches on the edge of the fountain, vocalizing.
House SparrowNEW SPECIES5+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 16:30:32 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
A male House Sparrow perches on the edge of the fountain, vocalizing.
Sex/age: adult male
Behavior: perched on fountain edge
Field marks: male plumage
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bird — 2026-05-17 16:32:56 — An adult male House Finch perches on the edge of the fountain, vocalizing.
House FinchNEW SPECIES5+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 16:32:56 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
An adult male House Finch perches on the edge of the fountain, vocalizing.
Sex/age: adult male
Behavior: perched
Field marks: red head and back, white breast, wing bars
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bird — 2026-05-17 17:02:00 — A male House Sparrow perches on the edge of a fountain, drinking water.
House Sparrow5+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 17:02:00 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
A male House Sparrow perches on the edge of a fountain, drinking water.
Sex/age: adult male
Behavior: drinking, perched
Field marks: sunny day, lens flare
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bird — 2026-05-17 18:09:54 — A male House Finch is drinking and splashing in the fountain.
House Finch5+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 18:09:54 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
A male House Finch is drinking and splashing in the fountain.
Sex/age: adult male
Behavior: drinking, splashing
Field marks: red head and breast, brownish-gray back and wings
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bird — 2026-05-17 18:28:55 — House Sparrow and an unknown small passerine perched on the edge of the fountain.
House Sparrow ×25+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 18:28:55 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.80
House Sparrow and an unknown small passerine perched on the edge of the fountain.
Sex/age: adult male, adult
Behavior: perching above the fountain
Field marks: fountain in the center of the birdbath
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bird — 2026-05-17 19:07:18 — An adult male House Finch perches on the fountain rim, calling softly.
House Finch5+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 19:07:18 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.80
An adult male House Finch perches on the fountain rim, calling softly.
Sex/age: adult male
Behavior: perching above the fountain
Field marks: backlit silhouette
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bird — 2026-05-17 19:18:54 — An American Robin is bathing in a fountain in a backyard.
American RobinNEW SPECIES5+ VISITSEVENING REGULAR
2026-05-17 19:18:54 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
An American Robin is bathing in a fountain in a backyard.
Sex/age: adult
Behavior: bathing
Field marks: active fountain, evening light
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bird — 2026-05-17 19:24:38 — Two adult male House Sparrows drinking and preening at a fountain.
House Sparrow ×35+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 19:24:38 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.80
Two adult male House Sparrows drinking and preening at a fountain.
Sex/age: adult male
Behavior: drinking, preening
Field marks: backlit silhouettes
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bird — 2026-05-17 19:54:25 — A House Sparrow is drinking and preening at the fountain.
House Sparrow5+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 19:54:25 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
A House Sparrow is drinking and preening at the fountain.
Sex/age: adult
Behavior: drinking, preening
Field marks: brownish-gray back, streaked breast
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bird — 2026-05-17 20:02:05 — A male House Finch is drinking and preening at the fountain.
House Finch5+ VISITSFREQUENT VISITOR
2026-05-17 20:02:05 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
A male House Finch is drinking and preening at the fountain.
Sex/age: adult male
Behavior: drinking, preening
Field marks: bright red head and breast
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bird — 2026-05-17 20:16:04 — An American Robin is drinking water from a fountain in a suburban backyard.
American Robin5+ VISITSEVENING REGULAR
2026-05-17 20:16:04 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.90
An American Robin is drinking water from a fountain in a suburban backyard.
Sex/age: adult
Behavior: drinking
Field marks: active fountain
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❓ Unidentified / hedged IDs (2)

Clips where the model could not commit to a species
bird — 2026-05-17 16:23:38 — A juvenile sparrow is drinking and splashing in the fountain.
unknown sparrowNEW SPECIES
2026-05-17 16:23:38 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.70
A juvenile sparrow is drinking and splashing in the fountain.
Sex/age: juvenile
Behavior: drinking, splashing
Field marks: streaked breast, small size
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unknown sparrow — 2026-05-17 17:59:58 — A juvenile sparrow is drinking and splashing in the fountain.
unknown sparrow
2026-05-17 17:59:58 · Fountain Cam · conf 0.70
A juvenile sparrow is drinking and splashing in the fountain.
Sex/age: juvenile
Behavior: drinking, splashing
Field marks: streaked breast, small size
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· EMPTY (no animal visible) (11)

Show empty motion-trigger clips
2026-05-17 16:10:31 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:11:58 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:13:00 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:16:28 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:20:54 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:22:33 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:26:40 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:28:56 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:25:21 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 16:31:34 · Fountain Cam
2026-05-17 17:35:34 · Fountain Cam

Species tally

SpeciesClipsIndividuals
House Sparrow58
House Finch44
American Robin22
American Crow11

Visitor frequency

SpeciesVisitsDistinct daysLast seenVerified
American Crow258242026-06-10 08:386/258
House Sparrow251242026-06-09 20:0645/251
House Finch133242026-06-10 09:3630/133
American Robin35152026-06-08 09:505/35
Dark-eyed Junco31142026-06-05 14:3711/31
White-crowned Sparrow20102026-06-07 11:385/20
Purple Finch1582026-06-03 05:4310/15
Brown-headed Cowbird1172026-05-28 12:2010/11
Rufous Hummingbird962026-05-30 14:374/9
Black-capped Chickadee762026-06-01 19:351/7
Chestnut-backed Chickadee652026-06-07 07:473/6
American Goldfinch532026-05-28 14:181/5
Common Raven432026-06-06 16:220/4
European Starling332026-06-03 11:552/3
Northern Flicker212026-06-07 08:250/2
Fox Sparrow112026-05-23 16:151/1
Common Starling112026-06-01 20:170/1
House Sparrow, American Robin112026-06-02 10:540/1
Crow112026-06-03 18:560/1
American Redstart112026-06-04 06:480/1

Generated by Birdwatch · 25 clip(s).

About these identifications

Species: Made by a local AI model and may contain errors. Identifications are reviewed and corrected over time.

Behaviors: Some are reliable (bathing, drinking are clear from video). Others like preening or vocalizing are often guesses — the model fills in what a species typically does at a birdbath rather than what it actually observed.

Sex and age: Easy calls like adult male House Finch are reliable. Female vs juvenile distinctions and most other sex/age calls are rough approximations.

How Birdwatch works

Hardware: A small camera detects motion and records short clips. An AMD GPU handles inference locally via ROCm.

Infrastructure: Everything runs in Podman containers on a self-hosted Linux server. Ollama runs the qwen2.5vl:7b vision language model locally. No cloud inference.

Pipeline: camera clip lands in an ingress folder. A systemd path watcher detects it and triggers processing. The coordinator extracts 5 frames and sends them to Ollama for identification. Results are written to JSON, the clip moves to archive, and a reporter script reads all JSONs, applies corrections, and generates the HTML report. A scheduled timer pushes the report to GitHub Pages.

Corrections and accuracy over time: Clips are reviewed via a LAN-only correction UI. When a bird ID is corrected, it gets saved and triggers automatic description regeneration and report rebuild. Before analyzing any new clip, the model receives a list of every species previously verified at this fountain. This should reduce repeated mistakes on birds the model has already gotten wrong once — but it is a nudge, not a guarantee.

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