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Tuesday, 21 October 2025

BirdNet Systems Testing #4: looking through the wrong end of the scope

Another day, another opinion

My earlier test results were still worrying me

Had I made some terrible mistake?

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Saturday, 18 October 2025

BirdNet Systems Testing #3: single call repeatability test

One final test method

 Is BirdNet really so bad?

or is there an 'age related' issue, i.e. 'me'

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Saturday, 4 October 2025

BirdNet Systems Testing #2: a critical review from AI

I'm still troubled by my initial test results

And I haven't made any progress on further testing, 

so I decided to get a second opinion.

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