Birdfy follow up, I canceled my subscription
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- I recently canceled my AI subscription for the Birdfy because it just isn’t very useful. It costs almost $50.00 for a year and even at today’s prices that will buy a lot of bird feed.
#birds #birdwatching #birdfeeder #birdfy #netvue
Yes! No need for the subscription. The birds can even be identified right from the native photo app on iPhone which I have found to be 100% accurate even at odd angles. lol.
Yep. That’s what I do
I've used Merlin since it came out, and before that, I used the Cornell website, which I still go back to sometimes. I tried the Audubon app, but it takes forever just to load. The thing that I really don't like about what you have is that it doesn't take into account your location, half of the IDs are of birds that are not from your area.
I agree. Until it gets a lot better I'll just stick to watching what landed during the day.
$50 per month is an astronomical amount for such a subscription in my opinion. I pay less than half that for my computer's antivirus subscription for the whole year.
It's $50 per year. I'm not a rich man.
@@LSatch; Oh, I seem to remember you saying per month. My mistake.
Thanks Larry, you saved me some money. 🐦
Great. It’s a great little camera, it doesn’t have the identification down yet.
I’ve been thinking about getting one of these, but the more videos I watch the less I want it!
@@carolstella6776 there are now better ones available. I love the Camojojo Hybrid. Gives you 4k pictures
I also have a mockingbird who loves to hangout at the feeder.
I’m going to move mine. She’s there all day. In the last week I’ve only seen one other bird there, a Carolina wren.
I just got the Birdfy Hummer feeder and didn't hear anything about a subscription?
Sounds like I wouldn't want it either
You really don’t need it.
So true Larry…miss identity…save your money
Yes, even at today’s prices $50.00 will still buy a lot of bird feed. Thanks for watching
Am old school and still just get out my books and or ask my neighbor who's lived here forever.
Fifty dollars is two months of bird food or deer corn.
Surely there are better wildlife cams. Very informative as I'm looking for security and wildlife cams.
I've a 1936 bird book with gorgeous plates..not Audubon
Trade for an old drafting table 🤔.
Those old books are beautiful. It’s a great camera and the company NETvue has several different models for home monitoring. They just can’t get the birds right. After much reflection, I should have never fallen for the identification feature. There are only a hand full of species that visit a given area and except for the occasional different birds passing through, they are just the usual birds you see every day.
@@LSatch ah so it's a good security camera
Lucky me.i wish I could keep up with your content but I'm not even getting notifications of replying or anything else sometimes.
As I'm old, need reminding🤔😉💯😂
Bought all the old fashioned tools last to years to build birdhouses cause of you.
However, my hands quit working for any fine handwork so I'll be putting them online.
My son's not interested.
Got two old drills and about a hundred bits.plus saws. Will send you a picture after we do outside today.
No rain
Fifty five
Sounds good to me
Have a great day 💯🤗
Do you have a problem with your camera picking up the motion from that suet feeder in the background? I have just put my feeder up in really the only place I can, and there is a tree in the background. Whenever the wind blows the feeder goes off and records. I can’t find anywhere to adjust the sensitivity of the camera.
No I don’t have that problem but there is a lot of space in front of it. Open the app and you should see a ⚙️. Open it add one of the first things you see near the top is motion detection, open that and change the sensitivity settings.
Hope this helps.
Can someone please tell me how to charge the camera I plug it in like I think that I’m supposed to and it says a yellow light should come on, but there is no yellow light that comes on🤷🏼♀️
Have you reached out to support? Maybe you a lemon?
Hi Larry. Merlin works well for me. I ve got my feeder/ camera on a post. Losing the battle with the racoons. Any suggestions?
I have a video for what works for me. th-cam.com/video/dmsd167UqI4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kFgrW1KGC_UJXC9X
You could also try a product called tanglefoot. It’s really sticky stuff the squirrels and raccoons won’t go past. About 10-12” below the feeder. It will also catch any insects that land on it, including pollinators.
Hope this helps
@@LSatch Thanks for your reply Larry. Im going to start with the PVC first. Your videos are very informative . Looks like you've gotten good results.
If you were into tinkering with computers, there are a few open source projects for building your own bird recognition system. I wouldn't be surprised if this product had borrowed from one of those.
I'm not into computers or programming. I'll just stick to google photos for now.
You're right about the "AI", it simply doesn't work. Use Google image search if you don't know the bird.
I think it’s getting better but not by my. I walked by one the other day in a yellow shirt and it identified me as a parrot 🤷🏻♂️😂😂
Enjoyed this video, what runs on the train track in your bird yard ?
Thanks for watching. The track is our 150’ roller coaster. Here’s a link, be sure to watch near the end.
th-cam.com/video/pCmIIpO1M9s/w-d-xo.html
Bahahahaha. I wonder if the Justice System is having the same problem.
😂😂😂
Can you still keep the pictures to make pictures?
I’m not sure. Since I just canceled I think it’s too early to e able to answer that question. It’s still identifying as usual.
Just take a screenshot while you’re watching the bird video. 😊
I just download the video or my Samsung gallery and then when you watch it there you can take as many screenshots as you want. I usually take those shots and pop them in Merlin so I can track different species I see in my Life List on there. Hope that works!!
Does this take pictures at night?
I think so but so far nothing has triggered the motion detector to see. I can turn on the camera at night.
I have some pretty fun western screech owls that love the infrared light and check it out regularly
Hello Larry
Hey Gary